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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 14:31:30 +1300
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Subject: Re: Getting session cookie
From: Jamie Diprose <jamie.diprose@gmail.com>
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Cool, thanks guys! Klaus you were right, it works now :)

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de>
wrote:

> Hi Jamie!
>
> Checking CORS settings is always a good idea in such context ;)
>
> Have you checked that the `credentials` configuration in the `cors`
> section (see
>
> http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/config/http.html?highlight=cors#cors/credentials
> )
> is set to `true`?
>
> Also note that you need to set the `withCredentials` property on the
> XMLHttpRequest object to `true` as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Klaus
>
>
> On 10/06/2015 04:19 AM, Jamie Diprose wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to get the session data using the CouchDB jQuery API from a
> web
> > application, but the userCtx.name variable is always null. The web
> > application runs on a different port to CouchDB.
> >
> > Authentication with couchdb via Javascript is working fine; I'm using
> > the CouchDB-XO_Auth
> > plugin <https://github.com/ocastalabs/CouchDB-XO_Auth>. Once the user is
> > logged in via the CouchDB-XO_auth plugin, they show up as logged in when
> > requesting the session: http://127.0.0.1:5984/_session/
> >
> >
> {"ok":true,"userCtx":{"name":"awesomeuser","roles":[]},"info":{"authentication_db":"_users","authentication_handlers":["oauth","cookie","default"],"authenticated":"cookie"}}
> >
> >
> > But if I request the session from my web application I get the following
> > data:
> >
> >
> {"ok":true,"userCtx":{"name":"null","roles":["_admin"]},"info":{"authentication_db":"_users","authentication_handlers":["oauth","cookie","default"],"authenticated":"default"}}
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what could be going wrong? E.g. some cors
> > related settings that stops you from being able to grab the session
> cookie
> > from another domain?
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Jamie
> >
>

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