How to delete cookies in Django?

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I'm trying to develop login page for a web site. I stored users which logged on correctly to a cookie with set_cookie. But I don't know how to delete the cookie. So, how can I delete the cookie to make a user log out?

check this question, it should help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275357/django-logoutredirect-to-home-page-delete-cookie here's documentation for django 1.4: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpResponse.delete_cookie — tony, Jan 18 '13 at 14:54
Why aren't you using Django's auth framework? And even if you can't use that for some reason, why aren't you using the sessions framework rather than raw cookies? — Daniel Roseman, Jan 18 '13 at 15:09
I am move the code from tornado to django. And the souce was developed using cookie. I dont want change a lot to the code. — Nick Dong, Jan 19 '13 at 02:02
Yes, I have read the doc, and questions at [django-logoutredirect-to-home-page-delete-cookie](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275357/django-logoutredirect-to-home-page-delete-cookie) — Nick Dong, Jan 19 '13 at 02:10

score 52 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '15 at 12:38

Setting cookies :

    def login(request):
        response = HttpResponseRedirect('/url/to_your_home_page')
        response.set_cookie('cookie_name1', 'cookie_name1_value')
        response.set_cookie('cookie_name2', 'cookie_name2_value')
        return response

Deleting cookies :

    def logout(request):
        response = HttpResponseRedirect('/url/to_your_login')
        response.delete_cookie('cookie_name1')
        response.delete_cookie('cookie_name2')
        return response

deleting cookie this way still remains in browser, first hand experience :/ — vijay shanker, Apr 27 '18 at 07:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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You can simply delete whatever you've stored in the cookie - this way, even though the cookie is there, it no longer contain any information required for session tracking and the user needs to authorize again.

(Also, this seems like a duplicate of Django logout(redirect to home page) .. Delete cookie?)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 05 '23 at 11:08

For example, you set cookies as shown below. *You must return the object otherwise cookies are not set to a browser and you can see my answer explaining how to set and get cookies in Django:

from django.shortcuts import render

def my_view(request):
    response = render(request, 'index.html', {})
    response.set_cookie('name', 'John') # Here
    response.cookies['age'] = 27 # Here
    return response # Must return the object

Then, you can delete the cookies with response.delete_cookie() as shown below. *You must return the object otherwise cookies are not deleted from a browser:

from django.shortcuts import render

def my_view(request):
    response = render(request, 'index.html', {})
    response.delete_cookie('name')
    response.delete_cookie('age')
    return response # Must return the object

How to delete cookies in Django?

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