Make Axios send cookies in its requests automatically

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I am sending requests from the client to my Express js server using Axios    I set a cookie on the client and I want to read that cookie from all Axios requests without adding them manually to request by hand    This is my clientside request example   axios get  some api url   then response   gt        I tried to access headers or cookies by using these properties in my Express js server   req headers req cookies   Neither of them contained any cookies  I am using cookie parser middleware   app use cookieParser      How do I make Axios send cookies in requests automatically    Edit   I set cookie on the client like this   import cookieClient from  react-cookie       let cookie   cookieClient load  cookie-name   if cookie     undefined         axios get  path to my cookie api   then response   gt            if response status    200             cookieClient save  cookie-name   response data   path                                      While it s also using Axios  it is not relevant to the question  I simply want to embed cookies into all my requests once a cookie is set

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I had the same problem and fixed it by using the withCredentials property.

XMLHttpRequest from a different domain cannot set cookie values for their own domain unless withCredentials is set to true before making the request.

axios.get('some api url', {withCredentials: true});

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TL DR     withCredentials  true   or axios defaults withCredentials   true    From the axios documentation     withCredentials  false     default   withCredentials indicates whether or not cross-site Access-Control requests should be made using credentials  If you pass   withCredentials  true   with your request it should work   A better way would be setting withCredentials as true in axios defaults     axios defaults withCredentials   true

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What worked for me  Client Side  import axios from  axios    const url    http   127 0 0 1 5000 api v1    export default     login credentials        return axios        post    url  users login    credentials            withCredentials  true          credentials   include                   then  response    gt  response data            Server Side  const express   require  express    const cors   require  cors     const app   express    const port   process env PORT    5000   app use    cors       origin    http   localhost   port     https   localhost   port         credentials   true

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It s also important to set the necessary headers in the express response  These are those which worked for me   app use function req  res  next      res header  Access-Control-Allow-Origin   yourExactHostname     res header  Access-Control-Allow-Credentials   true     res header  Access-Control-Allow-Headers    Origin  X-Requested-With  Content-Type  Accept      next

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for people still not able to solve it  this answer helped me  stackoverflow answer  34558264  TLDR  one needs to set  withCredentials  true  in both GET request as well the POST request  getting the cookie  for both axios as well as fetch

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I am not familiar with Axios  but as far as I know in javascript and ajax there is an option   withCredentials  true   This will automatically send the cookie to the client-side  As an example  this scenario is also generated with passportjs  which sets a cookie on the server

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For anyone where none of these solutions are working  make sure that your request origin equals your request target  see this github issue  I short  if you visit your website on 127 0 0 1 8000  then make sure that the requests you send are targeting your server on 127 0 0 1 8001 and not localhost 8001  although it might be the same target theoretically

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You can use withCredentials property to pass cookies in the request   axios get  api url     withCredentials  true      By setting   withCredentials  true   you may encounter cross origin issue  To solve that  you need to use   expressApp use cors   credentials  true  origin   http   localhost 8080         Here you can read about withCredentials

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Another solution is to use this library   https   github com 3846masa axios-cookiejar-support  which integrates  Tough Cookie  support in to Axios   Note that this approach still requires the withCredentials flag

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You are getting the two thinks mixed   You have  react-cookie  and  axios   react-cookie    is for handling the cookie on the client side  axios    is for sending ajax requests to the server  With that info  if you want the cookies from the client side to be communicated in the backend side as well  you will need to connect them together   Note from  react-cookie  Readme      Isomorphic cookies       To be able to access user cookies while doing server-rendering  you   can use plugToRequest or setRawCookie    link to readme  If this is what you need  great   If not  please comment so I could elaborate more

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So I had this exact same issue and lost about 6 hours of my life searching  I had the  withCredentials  true  But the browser still didn t save the cookie until for some weird reason I had the idea to shuffle the configuration setting   Axios post GlobalVariables API URL    api login             email          password          honeyPot                  withCredentials  true          headers    Access-Control-Allow-Origin         Content-Type    application json             Seems like you should always send the  withCredentials  Key first

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How do I make Axios send cookies in requests automatically    set axios defaults withCredentials   true   or for some specific request you can use axios get url  withCredentials true       this will give CORS error if your  Access-Control-Allow-Origin  is set to   wildcard       Therefore make sure to specify the url of origin of your request   for ex  if your front-end which makes the request runs on localhost 3000   then set the response header as  res setHeader  Access-Control-Allow-Origin    http   localhost 3000      also set   res setHeader  Access-Control-Allow-Credentials  true

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