document.cookie empty in phonegap application

Question

I have a phonegap application that communicates with a server using ajax and cookies for session managment.

I need to access the cookies in the client side. I've tried:

document.cookie;

However, this results in an empty string.

I know that the cookies are set, because the server that the client communicates with can see them.

At first I thought that it is empty because I access document.cookie from a different js file, but even from the same file that makes the ajax request I get an empty string.

Through Chrome's Resources->cookies->localhost I see that the cookies actually exist.

I checked over the server whether the HttpOnly flag is set to true, but it isn't.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Edit:

I found this plugin:
https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie

However, this results in an empty string as well.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 09 '14 at 09:26

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On Phonegap document.cookie is empty, since index.html and all other files are loaded with file:// protocol.

You must use localStorage.

edited Oct 09 '14 at 09:26

Gottlieb Notschnabel

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answered Oct 09 '14 at 08:14

Ferro

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Please put some code instead of giving link. It may be expire in future. – Lavekush Agrawal Oct 09 '14 at 08:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '14 at 09:45

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You might want to have a look at the plugin http://plugreg.com/plugin/bez4pieci/Phonegap-Cookies-Plugin

Git: https://github.com/bez4pieci/Phonegap-Cookies-Plugin

answered Jan 15 '14 at 09:45

Vinoth

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please clarify for what purpose did you read it or tried it ? – shareef Jan 15 '14 at 10:04

document.cookie empty in phonegap application

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