Cookie not getting created when redirecting?

Question

I have the following in my controller:

    public ActionResult Login(string email, string password)
    {
        /* 
           some stuff 
           ...
        */
        HttpCookie CustomerCookie = new HttpCookie("Customer");
        CustomerCookie.Values.Add("FirstName", Customer.FirstName);
        CustomerCookie.Values.Add("LastName", Customer.LastName);
        CustomerCookie.Values.Add("Email", email);
        CustomerCookie.Secure = true;
        Response.Cookies.Add(CustomerCookie);
        return RedirectToAction("OrderType", "Order");
    }

But for some reason when I look for the cookie it is nowhere to be found after the redirect. Based on this question I was assuming that the method above would work.

Can anyone see why my cookie is not being created here?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '15 at 20:50

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Some troubleshooting steps I would take:

Remove the redirect and just return an empty view and see if the cookie is there
Do not set Secure to true and see if that's the issue
Force a response flush to see if there's an action filter or something post action execution that's preventing the cookie from being returned in the response
Use fiddler to look at the actual http response for the cookie in case your browser is preventing cookies

answered Jul 16 '15 at 20:50

Kristofor

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Gah - it was totally the secure flag! I forgot that I'm not using a secure connection when I run locally. Thanks! – Abe Miessler Jul 16 '15 at 21:53

Cookie not getting created when redirecting?

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