parsing cookies from http.createServer()

parse_cookies.markdown

parsing cookies from http.createServer()

To parse cookies, we can use the cookie module's cookie.parse() function:

var cookie = require('cookie');
var http = require('http');

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    var cookies = cookie.parse(req.headers.cookie);
    res.end('I got these cookies: ' + JSON.stringify(cookies) + '\n');
});
server.listen(8000);

First start the server:

node server.js

then in another terminal, we can use curl to send a cookie header:

$ curl -H 'cookie: beep=boop; xyz=123' http://localhost:8000
I got these cookies: {"beep":"boop","xyz":"123"}

see also

[sending cookies from http.createServer()]