Skip to content

docs: clarify empty cookies when Cookie header is absent #170

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
Hashim1999164 wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

docs: clarify empty cookies when Cookie header is absent #170

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ Create a new cookie parser middleware function using the given `secret` and
The middleware will parse the `Cookie` header on the request and expose the
cookie data as the property `req.cookies` and, if a `secret` was provided, as
the property `req.signedCookies`. These properties are name value pairs of the
cookie name to cookie value.
cookie name to cookie value. When no `Cookie` header is present (or the header
is empty), both `req.cookies` and `req.signedCookies` are set to empty objects
(never `undefined` or `false`).

When `secret` is provided, this module will unsign and validate any signed cookie
values and move those name value pairs from `req.cookies` into `req.signedCookies`.
Expand Down