Cannot get cookie

Greetings,

I'm trying to get the PHPSESSID cookie, but it keeps returning null. I'm certain the page login.php gives out a cookie as I've seen the cookie in my web browser/Firebug. Here is the cookie from Firebug: PHPSESSID=7atro6i6rc7ugprt4841g5nej2

Appcelerator (Android Simulator 2.2 API with 1.4.0 sdk) gives an error "cannot call method 'getValue' of null".

Here is my code:

var xhr=Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();
xhr.onload=function(){
    if(xhr.responseText=="OK"){
        alert(xhr.getCookie("PHPSESSID").getValue());   //<----- does not work
        //Apparently xhr.getCookie("PHPSESSID") is null
        var win_home=Titanium.UI.createWindow({
            url:'wins/hoome.js',
            backgroundColor:'#CCC'
        });
        alert(Titanium.App.eoh_cookie);
        win_home.open();
    }
};
xhr.onerror=function(){
    alert('There was an error processing your request. Please try again.');
}

xhr.open("POST","http://10.0.2.2/Dropbox/www/ajax/login.php");
var data={};
data.uname=uname.value;
data.pword=pword.value;
xhr.send(data);

Am I getting the cookie in the right place? Any insight greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,

3 Answers

Ok, I've managed to resolve this problem:

Get a cookie with:
```
var cookie=xhr.getResponseHeader("Set-Cookie");
//parse cookie if necessary
```
Set a cookie withi:
```
...
xhr.setRequestHeader("Cookie",cookie);
//just before send
xhr.send(data);
```
Many thanks for all the help guys,
— answered November 17th 2010 by Eamonn Hynes
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- glad to help out
  
  — commented November 17th 2010 by Aaron Saunders
- use cookie = xhr.getResponseHeader("Set-Cookie");
  I got a cookie like this :
  user_info=%23%3CUser%3A0x000000067a8f40%3E; path=/; expires=Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:54:32 -0000
  how can I parse the user_info?
  
  — commented February 6th 2015 by gml gml
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set cookie should be

cdb_auth="XXXXX"
cdb_sid="XXXX"

xhr.setRequestHeader('Cookie', cdb_auth);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Cookie", cdb_sid);

since cookie transfers as http request header

— answered November 25th 2010 by Samwise Zhan
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this will get you all of the cookies, I guess then you can parse the string to get a specific one

xhr.onload=function(){
    if(xhr.responseText=="OK") {
        Ti.API.info( "cookies: " + xhr.getResponseHeader('Set-Cookie') );
    }

— answered November 17th 2010 by Aaron Saunders
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Hey, I got that. Here is my code to parse the cookie:

function getSessID(cookie){
    var split1=cookie.split(';');
    var split2=split1[0].split('PHPSESSID=');
    return split2[1];
}

Which is called with:

Ti.App.PHPSESSID=getSessID(xhr.getResponseHeader("set-cookie"));

But I can't seem to successfully set the cookie now…

...
xhr.open("POST","http://10.0.2.2/Dropbox/www/ajax/login.php");
xhr.setCookie("PHPSESSID",Ti.App.PHPSESSID);   //<-- this line won't work!
var data={};
data.uname=uname.value;
data.pword=pword.value;
xhr.send(data);

Using appcelerator 1.4.3. When I try it in Appcelerator 1.5, it says the function 'setCookie()' doesn't exist?!

Many thanks in advance,

— commented November 17th 2010 by Eamonn Hynes

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