Set cookies

[MickL]

Describe the feature

I have a login route that returns a session cookie but when sending subsequents requests the cookie is not set:

const loginResponse = await ofetch.raw('/login', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: {
        email: '[email protected]',
        password: 'test123',
      },
    });
expect(loginResponse.status).toBe(204);

const securedRouteResponse = await ofetch.raw('/admin/products');
expect(securedRouteResponse).toBe(200); // -> 403

Unfortunately the cookie is never set. I tried to set option credentials: 'include' on both requests with no success. Am I missing something?

Additional information

• [ ] Would you be willing to help implement this feature?

[87xie]

Checking the Set-Cookie attributes, such as Path, Domain, Expires, etc, in the server response headers of the /login endpoint to ensure the cookie is stored correctly

[MickL]

Yes it works fine in browser and in Postman

[duy-dev]

I also have the same problem, the application runs fine locally but when deployed to Firebase it cannot get cookies 😥

[sonicjhon1]

Try with

const loginResponse = await ofetch.raw('/login', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: {
        email: '[email protected]',
        password: 'test123',
      },
      credentials: "include",
});

[MickL]

You mean credentials: include? Thats what I tried as I wrote in the initial issue

[sonicjhon1]

You mean credentials: include? Thats what I tried as I wrote in the initial issue

Yeah my bad, did you try it with access-control-allow-credentials header set to true in the server?

[MickL]

It works in the browser and with Postman, just not in the test or an empty node script with ofetch.

[pratik149]

Facing the same issue, runs fine locally but not in production. Did anyone figure this out? :(

[Aareksio]

fetch by design is not managing the cookies for you

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What you are trying to accomplish is creating a stateful client, which shares state between subsequent requests. fetch, and by extension ofetch, is not designed to do this. Each request is independent. To accomplish your goal, a separate concept of "cookie jar" is required - a storage instance which is going to read response headers, persist cookies and set them on future requests. You can write it yourself or try open source pacakges.

I imagine using fetch-cookie package with ofetch should look like this:

import { $fetch } from 'ofetch'
import makeFetchCookie from 'fetch-cookie'

const fetchWithCookies = makeFetchCookie($fetch.native)
const client = $fetch.create({ fetch: fetchWithCookies })

[MickL]

Thanks for the info!

Can we treat this issue as a feature request then? So ofetch will behave as a cookie jar, automatically setting cookies @pi0 ?

[duy-dev]

I also have the same problem, the application runs fine locally but when deployed to Firebase it cannot get cookies 😥

After many days of researching, I also found the problem. Firebase only accepts one cookie named __session. Hope this information is useful to everyone. Details on this can be found here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/manage-cache?hl=en#using_cookies

[pi0]

@Aareksio is well explained, ofetch is stateless by design.

However, i see good use cases for stateful cookie (most importantly for testing), therefore made new proposal (~> #435). With stateful instance, we can also register a hook that implements cookie support.