[Fixed]-How to update a cookie in Django

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At some point, for a new user, you should set the cookie. Cookie expire time is usually a per user case. In Django, you can set the cookie age with the following code:

response = redirect('somewhere') # replace redirect with HttpResponse or render
response.set_cookie('cookie_name', 'cookie_value', max_age=1000)

The above cookie will expire after 1000s in a user’s browser.

There’s also an expires attribute where you can specify an expire date.

Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpResponse.set_cookie

EDIT

From the django source code, try the following:

response = redirect('somewhere') # replace redirect with HttpResponse or render
response.cookies['cookie_name']['expires'] = datetime.today() + timedelta(days=1)

Expire the above 1 day from today.

👤Thierry Lam

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Accessing cookies: request.COOKIES[..]

Setting cookies: response.set_cookie()

More informations here: django book: Sessions…

👤manji

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Three ways:
1)

response = render_to_response(template_name, {'data':'data'})
response.set_cookie("cookie_name","test_value")
return response

2Midellware: http://justcramer.com/2007/12/20/set-cookies-without-a-response-in-django/

3) javascript in template

👤baklarz2048

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this is how you can render a template with any context, and changing cookie

    context = {"any_context_key_1":"value_1", "key_2": "value_2"}
    response = render(request, 'index.html', context)
    response.set_cookie("this_is_cookies_key", "this_is_its_value", max_age=None)
    return response
👤oruchkin

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