using HttpClient(Apache) with the default AcceptAllCookiesStorage. Are cookies shared between a.com ...

# ktor

[Tim Castelijns]

using HttpClient(Apache) with the default AcceptAllCookiesStorage. Are cookies shared between a.com and b.a.com?

[e5l]

The scope of the cookie header is restricted to request host.

[Tim Castelijns]

I thought so. Is there a easier way to manually handle cookies than parsing response.headers and appending to another request?

[e5l]

You could access to CookieStorage with feature method and copy cookies between the domains

[Tim Castelijns]

like this? (client.feature(HttpCookies) as CookiesStorage).addCookie("<http://domain.com|domain.com>", cookie)

[Tim Castelijns]

no 🙂 this cast is wrong

[e5l]

Look's like you only could save cookiesStorage from the config builder and modify later. But it looks creepy. Let's file an issue about that.

[Tim Castelijns]

thank you

[e5l]

No problem 🙂

[Tim Castelijns]

previously you stated “The scope of the cookie header is restricted to request host.” however I have read that if a cookie’s domain starts with . then it should also be available for requests to any subdomain

[e5l]

There is clarification: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18492576/share-cookie-between-subdomain-and-domain

[Tim Castelijns]

yes, I have just read this

[e5l]

However we could support it in ktor

[Tim Castelijns]

I am trying to get a response from a stack overflow chat endpoint, however it is not documented and everything I try gives a vague 404 response. Messing with the cookies was my last resort but it has not helped. I can’t say where the issue is so there might not be an issue with ktor at all

[e5l]

Could you share the request configuration?

[Tim Castelijns]

not easily, it is a pretty big mess