httpformserver questions

[rakesh]

Look into the browser developer tools window and look for request/response headers. Make sure your browser is sending you the cookie information in the request headers, and also that your server is sending it in the response headers

[Sqarzz]

yes, the developer tool was a great suggestion.
The problem was that I had to write to the cookie,
before I called: std::ostream& ostr = response.send(), which sounds logic.

How would a cookie be cleared? Do I just have to write garbage to the cookie, or is there a way to clear them all?
is it safe to just call response.clear()?
Because response.setChunkedTransferEncoding & response.setContentType were previously set.

also: response:clear doesn't work when i have send the cookie in a previous instance of the handler.

[rakesh]

Server cannot delete a cookie (since it is stored in client browser). The usual way is to set the cookie's expiration time to some time in the past, and the browser will delete its stored cookie

[Sqarzz]

thanks you, cookie.setMaxAge(0); indeed worked

[Sqarzz]

Okay, got my cookies working

In the console, every time a new htmlpage is requested "/favicon.ico" gets outputted.
I tried getting around this by using <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://localhost/" />, that way, the client browser does not request the favicon.
Only problem now is the backslash still being outputted to the console "/".
Is there a way around this?

[Sqarzz]

could it be possible the POST of the text/html itself is causing the output of "\" in the console, when /localhost/ is first called?

[rakesh]

/favicon.ico is something every browser requests - to use as the icon to associate with a bookmark, or as tab icon etc.