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Posted by khaled adel
khaled adel
3,252 Points

the browser doesn't take me to the index page depending on the saved cookie , its like the cookie is not there

i see the cookie in browser dev tools , however every time the whole page and form are loaded without taking into consideration the saved cookie

2 Answers

minh nguyen
minh nguyen
55,848 Points
minh nguyen
minh nguyen
55,848 Points

Hi, it depends on which domain the cookie belongs to. For example, cookie of teamtreehouse would not log you in for another sites except the same site.

khaled adel
khaled adel
3,252 Points

i visit the same site , still the cookie is not used

minh nguyen
minh nguyen
55,848 Points
minh nguyen
minh nguyen
55,848 Points

The cookie is a small piece of data which often contain a token to authenticate you to a site, it is rarely used for saving form data, you can take a look at session lessons on Treehouse for a backend language, for example PHP etc. If you modify the cookie content; in the server side, it is possible to detect that you cookie information was changed or not from the last time the server issued the cookie, usually base on hashing a secret phrase, user id and timestamp of an event.