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httpSetResponseCookie

Server-side
Caution

This function works only in the HTTP interface, meaning in .html files - it is not available in .lua files.

This function sets the value for the specified HTTP cookie of the current HTML page.

Syntax 

​bool httpSetResponseCookie ( ​string cookieName, ​string cookieValue )
Required arguments
  • cookieName: The HTTP cookie whose value is being set.
  • cookieValue: The new value for the specified cookie.

Returns

Returns true if the cookie value was set successfully, false otherwise.

  • bool: result

Code Examples

server

This example retrieves the player's loginTime element data, sets it as a cookie, and then displays it on the page when visiting the resource's web page.

<*
    local timestamp = getElementData(getPlayerFromName(getAccountName(user)), 'loginTime') or ''
    local date = os.date("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", timestamp)


    httpSetResponseCookie("login_time", tostring(date))
*>


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Hello</title>
    </head>


    <body onLoad="getLoginTime();">
        <p>Logged into the server: <span id='time_span'></span></p>


        <script>
        // getCookie function from w3schools.com
        function getCookie(cname) {
          let name = cname + "=";
          let decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);
          let ca = decodedCookie.split(';');
          for(let i = 0; i <ca.length; i++) {
            let c = ca[i];
            while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {
              c = c.substring(1);
            }
            if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {
              return c.substring(name.length, c.length);
            }
          }
          return "";
        }


        function getLoginTime()
        {
            var time = document.getElementById('time_span');
            var login_time = getCookie('login_time');


            time.innerHTML = (!login_time || login_time == '') ? 'Unknown' : login_time;
        }
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

See Also

HTTP Functions
Reference