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I've been trying to set my cookie's expiry date in Node.js using Express 3.0, but nothing is working.
My first attempt:
res.cookie('user', user, { maxAge: 9000, httpOnly: true });
Just ends in a cookie that has an invalid expiry time according to Chrome. Then I tried to set 'expires' instead, like so:
res.cookie('user', user, { expires: new Date(new Date().getTime()+5*60*1000), httpOnly: true });
And now my cookie is just a session cookie.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Cookie expire time can be set easily by : res. cookie(name , 'value', {expire : new Date() + 9999}); Addition options for cookies can be set be passing an object as argument which carries additional settings for cookies.
res. cookie(name, 'value', {expire: 360000 + Date. now()}); Another way to set expiration time is using 'maxAge' property.
In order to correctly set cookies accessible on the client just use a snippet like the following: res. cookie('rememberme', 'yes', { maxAge: 900000, httpOnly: false});
Set the cookie "Max-Age" attribute. A positive value indicates when the cookie should expire relative to the current time. A value of 0 means the cookie should expire immediately. A negative value results in no "Max-Age" attribute in which case the cookie is removed when the browser is closed.
Do note that maxAge is in milliseconds-
res.cookie('jwtToken', token, { maxAge: 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000, httpOnly: true }); // maxAge: 2 hours
You have to use req.session.cookie:
req.session.cookie.expires = false;
req.session.cookie.maxAge = 5 * 60 * 1000;
See also connect docs.
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