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Cookie Store Alternative for Firefox and Safari Browsers

At present I am looking to capture expiry date for cookies on the browser.

These are cookies set by others and I can't change it. Just looking to read the cookie and it's expiry.

The following works for Chrome and Edge.

cookieStore.get('myCookie')
    .then(cookie => cookie.expiry)
    .then(expiry => console.log(expiry))

But this is not supported in Firefox and Safari as mentioned here under browser compatibility.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CookieStore

Are there alternatives, work arounds for Firefox and Safari to achieve the same?

Please advice. Thanks.

Solution

  • There is at least one polyfill library for the cookieStore API : https://github.com/markcellus/cookie-store

    I guess a polyfill qualifies as a workaround but note that there is a warning:

    EXPERIMENTAL: The Cookie Store API is not a W3C standard yet and the final implementation may differ from the current API of this project.

    You may already know it but some cookies are http-only and you may not have access to them from client side javascript.