How to get a cookie from an AJAX response?

The browser cannot give access to 3rd party cookies like those received from ajax requests for security reasons, however it takes care of those automatically for you!

For this to work you need to:

1) login with the ajax request from which you expect cookies to be returned:

$.ajax("https://example.com/v2/login", {     method: 'POST',     data: {login_id: user, password: password},     crossDomain: true,     success: login_success,     error: login_error  });

2) Connect with xhrFields: { withCredentials: true } in the next ajax request(s) to use the credentials saved by the browser

$.ajax("https://example.com/v2/whatever", {     method: 'GET',     xhrFields: { withCredentials: true },     crossDomain: true,     success: whatever_success,     error: whatever_error  });

The browser takes care of these cookies for you even though they are not readable from the headers nor the document.cookie

You're looking for a response header of Set-Cookie:

xhr.getResponseHeader('Set-Cookie');

It won't work with HTTPOnly cookies though.

Update

According to the XMLHttpRequest Level 1 and XMLHttpRequest Level 2, this particular response headers falls under the "forbidden" response headers that you can obtain using getResponseHeader(), so the only reason why this could work is basically a "naughty" browser.

xhr.getResponseHeader('Set-Cookie');

It won't work for me.

I use this

function getCookie(cname) {    var name = cname + "=";    var ca = document.cookie.split(';');    for(var i=0; i<ca.length; i++) {        var c = ca[i];        while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1);        if (c.indexOf(name) != -1) return c.substring(name.length,c.length);    }    return "";} success: function(output, status, xhr) {    alert(getCookie("MyCookie"));},

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.asp