Chrome not setting cookie path to root

Question

I am setting a cookie in Javascript using the following code :

setCookie('cart_items','product_name');


function setCookie(name,value,days) {
    if (days) {
        var date = new Date();
        date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
        var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
    }
    else var expires = "";
    document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}

But the cookie path is not set to root (/) in Chrome. Instead it gets set to the path from where the web page is being executed !!

I tested with IE and FF. It works fine with both these browsers ....

What might be wrong with Chrome or Is it the problem with cookie creation code i am using??

In Chrome ( 16.0.912.63 )

Path: /xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxx

in FF ( 6.0 )

Path: /

in IE (9)

Path: /

the path has been explicitly set ( document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/"; ) — Sandy505, Dec 17 '11 at 04:57
are you testing with local files or on server? Chrome had some issues with cookies and local files — Oleg Mikheev, Dec 17 '11 at 05:24
i am testing on a local wamp server. not yet tested with live linux server. i am going to give it a try :-) — Sandy505, Dec 17 '11 at 05:29
yessssss... works on my hosting server at godaddy... but still no success at localhost !! — Sandy505, Dec 18 '11 at 14:02
i am having a similar issue on a proper server with set-cookie headers. on chrome, when first visiting the site on /foo then a set-cookie with path=/ will end up stored with path=/foo. ff honors the path attribute as expected. any ideas/hints? — Attila Lendvai, Dec 01 '12 at 01:34

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

The reason this happens is because chrome doesn't allow setting cookies on local files by default. See this answer for more information: https://stackoverflow.com/a/347997/1324019 (text from answer)

Chrome doesn't support cookies for local files (or, like Peter Lyons mentioned, localhost*) unless you start it with the --enable-file-cookies flag. You can read a discussion about it at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=535.

*Chrome does support cookies if you use the local IP address (127.0.0.1) directly. so in the localhost case, that could be an easier workaround.

^ above is correct answer. if only OP would mark it as such – duggi Jun 11 '15 at 00:08 — duggi, Jun 11 '15 at 00:08

Chrome not setting cookie path to root

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