Express Session + Angular: can't access connect.sid cookie
angularjs, cookies, express, node.js
Solution
By default connect session uses a httpOnly cookie (look here).
Reading the cookie is always forbidden when httpOnly flag is set.
Try to disable the httpOnly flag:
app.use(express.session({
secret: 'mySecret',
cookie: { httpOnly: false }
}));
Problem
There is something I really don't understand here : I have express running on server-side, with session initialized. ``` app.use(express.session({ secret: 'mySecret' }) })); ``` As mentionned in this post Confusion over session IDs using Connect, it sends a connect.sid cookie to any request. On the client-side, I want to read the content of this cookie, and it feels impossible : ``` angular.module('myApp.controllers', ['ngCookies','myApp.services']) .controller('homeCtrl', function($scope, $cookies) { $cookies['test']='myValue'; console.log($cookies); }); ``` When I run this, I get this object in the log : `Object {test: "myValue"}`, whereas if I go to ressources tab in Chrome debugger, I can see both cookies : What am I doing wrong ? Is it impossible to access server-made cookies from angular ? Thanks