Can Javascript retrieve cookies from response header of current page?

Asked Aug 08 '14 at 06:14

Active Aug 06 '17 at 13:30

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Cookie is a special type of HTTP header.
Javascript can retrieve all cookies for the current page (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/3400787/418439).
However, it is not possible to retrieve the header of the current page
(Accessing the web page's HTTP Headers in JavaScript) unless making another request.

Why it is designed in this way? Due to security concern?

edited Aug 06 '17 at 13:30

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asked Aug 08 '14 at 06:14

Lee Chee Kiam

In addition to `document.cookie` you can also access `document.referrer`, `document.contentType` and `document.lastModified`. Why not more? Well, maybe just because it wasn't considered to be useful enought to expose. – pawel Aug 08 '14 at 14:28

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