Cookie

The Cookie HTTP request header contains stored HTTP cookies previously sent by the server with the Set-Cookie header.

The Cookie header is optional and may be omitted if, for example, the browser's privacy settings block cookies.

Syntax

Cookie: <cookie-list>
Cookie: name=value
Cookie: name=value; name2=value2; name3=value3

<cookie-list>

A list of name-value pairs in the form of <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>. Pairs in the list are separated by a semi-colon and a space ('; ').

Examples

Cookie: PHPSESSID=298zf09hf012fh2; csrftoken=u32t4o3tb3gg43; _gat=1;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

See also

• Set-Cookie
• Document.cookie