In Electron, is the default session persistent?

Question

I'm using Electron (v1.2.7) and I need session cookies to persist between app restarts (for auth).

Is it possible? I know in Chrome when you set "Continue where you left off", the session is kept but not sure if this works the same in Electron.

As a workaround, I tried storing the session cookies also as non session cookies but it failed with a generic error.

Clarification: I'm not setting the session cookies they are set by other webpages during authentication.

Answer 1

The default session is persistent, but if you set cookies using session.defaultSession.cookies.set() you must set the expiration date in order for the cookie to be persisted.

Answer 2

You can persist cookies setting the session and a expirationDate

This example was made on Angularjs

var session = require('electron').remote.session;
var ses = session.fromPartition('persist:name');

this.put = function (data, name) {
        var expiration = new Date();
        var hour = expiration.getHours();
        hour = hour + 6;
        expiration.setHours(hour);
        ses.cookies.set({
            url: BaseURL,
            name: name,
            value: data,
            session: true,
            expirationDate: expiration.getTime()
        }, function (error) {
            /*console.log(error);*/
        });
    };

PD: A problem that i had was if i didn't persist them, after a fews reloads my cookies get lost. So in this example i'd persist them 6 hours