Cookies: Setting a cookie path

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The path parameter specifies a document location for the cookie, so it’s assigned to a specific path, and sent to the server only if the path matches the current document location, or a parent:

document.cookie = 'name=Flavio; path=/dashboard'

this cookie is sent on /dashboard, /dashboard/today and other sub-urls of /dashboard/, but not on /posts for example.

If you don’t set a path, it defaults to the current document location. This means that to apply a global cookie from an inner page, you need to specify path=/.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Setting cookies
2: Setting a cookie expiration date
3: ▶︎ Setting a cookie path
4: Setting a cookie domain
5: Cookies security
6: Updating a cookie
7: Deleting a cookie
8: Accessing the value of a cookie
9: Checking if a cookie exists
10: Inspecting cookies
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