I tried using several mechanisms, including the jquery cookie plugin. When I try to read this cookie, I always get an empty result. Chrome's Developer Console shows that the sessionid cookie is indeed set. However, there's a checkmark for the HTTP column for that cookie, which is different than the other cookies. I'm developing on my localhost, if that makes a difference.
I tried using several mechanisms, including the jquery cookie plugin. When I try to read this cookie, I always get an empty result. Chrome's Developer Console shows that the sessionid cookie is indeed set. However, there's a checkmark for the HTTP column for that cookie, which is different than the other cookies. I'm developing on my localhost, if that makes a difference.
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Reset to default 16It's a HTTP-only cookie; they cannot be read by JavaScript.
http://en.wikipedia/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Secure_and_HttpOnly
It's explained in the documentation about sessions:
https://docs.djangoproject./en/dev/topics/http/sessions/#using-cookie-based-sessions
The behavior can be changed by setting SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY to false (but that is not remended; see link above).