Cookie

The Cookie HTTP request header contains stored HTTP cookies previously sent by the server with the Set-Cookie header.

The Cookie header might be omitted entirely, if the privacy setting of the browser are set to block them, for example.

Header type	Request header
Forbidden header name	yes

Syntax

Cookie: <cookie-list>
Cookie: name=value
Cookie: name=value; name2=value2; name3=value3

<cookie-list>

A list of name-value pairs in the form of <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>. Pairs in the list are separated by a semi-colon and a space ('; ').

Examples

Cookie: PHPSESSID=298zf09hf012fh2; csrftoken=u32t4o3tb3gg43; _gat=1;

Specifications

Specification	Title
RFC 6265, section 5.4: Cookie	HTTP State Management Mechanism

Browser compatibility

See also

• Set-Cookie
• Document.cookie