How to tell why a cookie is not being sent? How to tell why a cookie is not being sent? google-chrome google-chrome

How to tell why a cookie is not being sent?


How to tell why a cookie is not being sent:

  • Go to network tab, and click the request that is not being sent with your cookie.

  • Go to the "Cookies" tab just appeared.

  • Check "show filtered out request cookies" to see all the cookies that wasn't sent, they'll appear in yellow.

Then a little "i" label will appear next to the property that is preventing the cookie from being sent. You can hover over to see the detail.


This is a Chrome specific bug. No fix yet..

#56211 chrome.cookies fails for localhost domains

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56211

May also want to read this question. It isn't specific to chrome like this question, but it is specific to localhost behavior (unlike this question).


The problem is this:

domain=dev;

Quoting from RFC 2945:

The value of the Domain attribute specifies the domain for which the cookie is valid. If an explicitly specified value does not start with a dot, the user agent supplies a leading dot.

So the web client will only send the cookie if the host address ends in .dev.

Try sending the cookie without the domain attribute.