Can axios set cookies?

I’m trying to set a cookie with a response header like so:

Set-Cookie:connect.sid=s%3AvidaO7FJ_U-Fx77zGEAozIizc4eddq8P.wkkigPnMdYNo8SttRYplaI1%2FGL56vUVDgUK3UzoI6DI; Domain=subdomain.ofmywebsite.com; Path=/; Expires=Sun, 04 Mar 2018 15:14:18 GMT

Client side code:

axios.defaults.withCredentials = true;

axios('domain.ofmyserver.com/api/login', {
      method: 'post',
      data:{
        email: this.state.email,
        password: this.state.password
      },

    })

But no error is given and no cookie is set. What am I missing here? When I go directly with the browser to the server domain it will set a cookie. But with a POST request in axios it simply refuses it without any error.

Context

• axios version: 0.17.1
• Environment: Chrome, safari, firefox
• express server with express-session 1.15.6

[ninaolo]

If anyone still has this problem and reads this: double check that you’re setting domain and path from the server. I see that the creator of this thread did that, but I hadn’t and was going crazy over why it didn’t work. With fetch instead of axios, it worked without setting those properties, but axios needed them apparently.

[dspacejs]

Having tons of trouble with this. Domain and Path is being set as @ninaolo said:

sessionid=redacted_token; Domain=127.0.0.1; expires=Fri, 10 Apr 2020 07:07:41 GMT; HttpOnly; Max-Age=900; Path=/

The Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Credentials headers have also been set (which can cause issues with CORS). I’ve also tried disabling CORS on the server, the same issue exists.

The withCredentials setting has also been set:

axios.defaults.withCredentials = true;

I’ve also tried passing withCredentials to the request itself (in case the default setting didn’t work):

const response = await axios.post(
  `${API_URL}${LOGIN_URI}`,
  {
    email,
    password
  },
  { withCredentials: true }
);

Yet this still doesn’t seem to be setting the cookie and I don’t know why. The exact same endpoints work in Postman (it sets the cookie from the Set-Cookie header), yet in the browser it’s not working.

I also tried the same thing with fetch() and it worked in Chrome, it shows it in the devtools storage section. Except that when I refresh the page, the cookie disappears. And in Firefox it didn’t even work at all.

So this issue seems to not be specific to axios (I initially thought it was). Does anyone know what could be wrong?