How to get the cookie name when parsing?

[goldbergyoni]

Hi,

When parsing a cookie, I can see all the properties but how can realize which key represents the cookie name? I want to iterate over all http response cookies and act on a specific cookie, this why I need its name

Thanks!

Yoni

[dougwilson]

Hi @Yonatannn I'm not sure what you mean; when you pare the Cookie HTTP header, you get an object back, where each key is the name of the cookie and each value is the cookie's value. You can iterate over all the properties using for in, for example:

var cookies = cookie.parse('foo=bar; equation=E%3Dmc%5E2');
for (var name in cookies) {
  console.log('cookie name = "%s", cookie value = "%s"', name, cookie[name])
}

I hope this helps!

[goldbergyoni]

@dougwilson thanks!

I use 'Cookie' to parse superagent http header cookies which is in the format of:
Set-Cookie: =; Domain=; Secure; HttpOnly

Do I misuse/abuse Cookie which was supposed to handle other format?

Yoni

[dougwilson]

Ah, sorry, didn't realize. Yea, currently this module parse method only understands the format of the Cookie header. If you are inferested in formulating a pull request to add Set-Cookie parsing, that would be welcome, though you're always welcome to use a different module to accomplish your task if you are not tied to using this one :)