I am trying to access the token from a request in my FastAPI app that is running in my docker container endpoint but it is failing to get the cookies

@user.get('/get_cookies')
async def get_cookies(request: Request, user: user_dependency):
    if not user:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED)
    access_token = request.cookies.get('access_token')
    refresh_token = request.cookies.get('refresh_token')

    print(f"Access Token: {access_token}, Refresh Token: {refresh_token}")
    if access_token and refresh_token:
        return {'access_token': access_token, 'refresh_token': refresh_token}
    else:
        return "Failed to fetch access token and refresh token"

I am using requests to make a request to the API from my streamlit app

import streamlit as st
import requests

p_uri = "http://localhost:8000/user/get_cookies"

response = requests.get(p_uri)
st.write(response.json())

this is how the cookie is set:

        response = RedirectResponse(url='http://localhost:8501')

        response.set_cookie(
            key='jwt_token',
            value=jwt_token,
            httponly=False,
            max_age=60 * 60 * 24 * 30,
            secure=False,
            samesite='lax',
            domain='localhost',
            path='/'
        )
        response.set_cookie(
            key='access_token',
            value=token,
            max_age=60 * 60 * 24 * 30,
            httponly=False,
            secure=False,
            samesite='lax',
            domain='localhost',
            path='/'
        )

        response.set_cookie(
            key='refresh_token',
            value=refresh_token,
            max_age=60 * 60 * 24 * 30,
            httponly=False,
            secure=False,
            samesite='lax',
            domain='localhost',
            path='/'
        )

        return response

I am trying to access the token from a request in my FastAPI app that is running in my docker container endpoint but it is failing to get the cookies

@user.get('/get_cookies')
async def get_cookies(request: Request, user: user_dependency):
    if not user:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED)
    access_token = request.cookies.get('access_token')
    refresh_token = request.cookies.get('refresh_token')

    print(f"Access Token: {access_token}, Refresh Token: {refresh_token}")
    if access_token and refresh_token:
        return {'access_token': access_token, 'refresh_token': refresh_token}
    else:
        return "Failed to fetch access token and refresh token"

I am using requests to make a request to the API from my streamlit app

import streamlit as st
import requests

p_uri = "http://localhost:8000/user/get_cookies"

response = requests.get(p_uri)
st.write(response.json())

this is how the cookie is set:

        response = RedirectResponse(url='http://localhost:8501')

        response.set_cookie(
            key='jwt_token',
            value=jwt_token,
            httponly=False,
            max_age=60 * 60 * 24 * 30,
            secure=False,
            samesite='lax',
            domain='localhost',
            path='/'
        )
        response.set_cookie(
            key='access_token',
            value=token,
            max_age=60 * 60 * 24 * 30,
            httponly=False,
            secure=False,
            samesite='lax',
            domain='localhost',
            path='/'
        )

        response.set_cookie(
            key='refresh_token',
            value=refresh_token,
            max_age=60 * 60 * 24 * 30,
            httponly=False,
            secure=False,
            samesite='lax',
            domain='localhost',
            path='/'
        )

        return response

• python
• cookies
• python-requests
• fastapi
• streamlit

1 Answer 1

As described in this answer, you would need to use Session objects in Python requests library, or a Client instance from the httpx library, in order to persist cookies across requests.

Example (using requests)

import requests

s = requests.Session()

s.get('https://httpbin./cookies/set/sessioncookie/123456789')
r = s.get('https://httpbin./cookies')

print(r.text)
# '{"cookies": {"sessioncookie": "123456789"}}'

s.close()

You might find this answer helpful as well.