why is my cookie not being deleted on browser close? (expressJS backend)

Question

using the following code to set a cookie in my expressJS backend.

Edit The package I am using is 'cookie-session'. https://www.npmjs.com/package/cookie-session I should have specified this my bad. But no setting maxAge to null did not work. The cookie is still there when I reopen the browser.

app.use(
cookieSession({
    
    secret: 'secretmonkey',
    secure: false,
    maxAge: null,
    }),
);

I read that if maxAge is set to null the cookie should be deleted automatically when browser is closed.

What happens (using chrome) is that the cookie persists.

If it's not clear from the dupe, your `maxAge` and `secure` properties are set on the wrong object. Try `cookie: {maxAge: null}`. — ggorlen, Mar 22 '21 at 02:41
That is an express.session, I am using cookie-session. And no that did not work. I already said in my question that I did set maxAge to null but the cookie is still there when I reopen the browser — Karim Kamel, Mar 22 '21 at 04:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '21 at 09:07

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so it turns out I had Chrome open in another desktop on my operating system. So when I was closing the browser it only counted as closing the tab. Chrome was still running after all in the other desktop. Sorry for the silly question, my bad.

answered Mar 22 '21 at 09:07

Karim Kamel

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why is my cookie not being deleted on browser close? (expressJS backend)

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