Can't read cookies in php using ssl

Question

I'm setting a cookie with PHP in www.mysite.com/CookieTest.php like so:

setcookie( "test", "value", time( ) + 259200000, "/" );

which works fine and I can see the cookie in the settings in Chrome. I then try and read the cookie in www.mysite.com/Login.php like so:

if( isset( $_COOKIE[ "test" ] ) == false )
{
    echo "error";
}

which works fine with http, but not https. The above always returns false, and when I try

print_r( $_COOKIE );

it prints an empty array, even though I can see that there are 5 other cookies set on my site's domain in Chrome.

I'm using ajax in jquery to make the request to both CookieTest.php and Login.php using https. I have set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header and I'm not getting an error about the origin so I don't think that's the problem.

Read this [Reading cookies via HTTPS that were set using HTTP][1] [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2163828/reading-cookies-via-https-that-were-set-using-http — Navneet Garg, Mar 21 '15 at 08:17
Thanks for the info, I'll be busy all day today but I'll post more info later tonight — Joe Boris, Mar 21 '15 at 12:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '15 at 08:40

Unless you used the secure flag while setting the cookie, your cookie should be sent with both http as https.

You need to double-check that your domain name is exactly identical in both cases. Check for example if you are not using http://www.yourdomain/ (with www.) when setting the cookie and https://yourdomain/ (without www.) when trying to read the cookie.

Can't read cookies in php using ssl

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