cookie

Documentation

Overview

Package cookie writes and reads a (not signed and not encrypted) HTTP cookie. It is a small piece of data that a server sends to a user's web browser or other HTTP client. This way server can map HTTP traffic (which is stateless) to a specific client. Cookies are used for:

• Session management (e.g. logins, shopping carts)
• Personalization (e.g. user preferences, themes)
• Tracking (recording and analyzing user behavior)-:

Based on https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/working-with-cookies-in-go

Level: intermediate Topics: web server, net/http

Index

• Constants
• func Set(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
• func Show(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

Constants

const Name = "ExampleCookie"

Functions

func Set

func Set(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

Set adds a "Set-Cookie" header to the response and sends it to a client.

func Show

func Show(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

Show retrieves the cookie from the "Cookie" request header and sends it back to the client in the response body.