Set a Cookie

Response Status

The toy response succeeds and sends no body.

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The response succeeds

The status row says the toy response is OK.

response OK\text{response OK}
Cookie response statusThe Set-Cookie response, later request, and match rows are recomputed from pinned bytes.Cookie response status - Set-Cookie sid=7 returns as Cookie sid=7sectionnamevaluecheckstatusstatus200 OKokheaderSet-Cookiesid=7; Path=/parsedcookienamesidlabelcookievalue7labelcookiePath/pinnedheaderContent-Length0no bodyrequest linemethodGETparsedrequest linepath/cartparsedrequest lineversionHTTP/1.1parsedheaderHostshop.exampleexactheaderCookiesid=7sent backcheckSet-Cookiesid=7from responsecheckCookiesid=7from requestcheckPath/pinnedcheckmatchyessame labelchecksent body bytes0empty body

The response sends no body

The Content-Length row declares 0 body bytes.

Content-Length=0\text{Content-Length}=0
Cookie response statusThe Set-Cookie response, later request, and match rows are recomputed from pinned bytes.Cookie response status - Set-Cookie sid=7 returns as Cookie sid=7sectionnamevaluecheckstatusstatus200 OKokheaderSet-Cookiesid=7; Path=/parsedcookienamesidlabelcookievalue7labelcookiePath/pinnedheaderContent-Length0no bodyrequest linemethodGETparsedrequest linepath/cartparsedrequest lineversionHTTP/1.1parsedheaderHostshop.exampleexactheaderCookiesid=7sent backcheckSet-Cookiesid=7from responsecheckCookiesid=7from requestcheckPath/pinnedcheckmatchyessame labelchecksent body bytes0empty body

The useful part is a header

The row to watch is the Set-Cookie header, not a response body.

header carries label\text{header carries label}
Cookie response statusThe Set-Cookie response, later request, and match rows are recomputed from pinned bytes.Cookie response status - Set-Cookie sid=7 returns as Cookie sid=7sectionnamevaluecheckstatusstatus200 OKokheaderSet-Cookiesid=7; Path=/parsedcookienamesidlabelcookievalue7labelcookiePath/pinnedheaderContent-Length0no bodyrequest linemethodGETparsedrequest linepath/cartparsedrequest lineversionHTTP/1.1parsedheaderHostshop.exampleexactheaderCookiesid=7sent backcheckSet-Cookiesid=7from responsecheckCookiesid=7from requestcheckPath/pinnedcheckmatchyessame labelchecksent body bytes0empty body

Summary

This response uses a header to send a small label.

label sent in header\text{label sent in header}
Cookie response statusThe Set-Cookie response, later request, and match rows are recomputed from pinned bytes.Cookie response status - Set-Cookie sid=7 returns as Cookie sid=7sectionnamevaluecheckstatusstatus200 OKokheaderSet-Cookiesid=7; Path=/parsedcookienamesidlabelcookievalue7labelcookiePath/pinnedheaderContent-Length0no bodyrequest linemethodGETparsedrequest linepath/cartparsedrequest lineversionHTTP/1.1parsedheaderHostshop.exampleexactheaderCookiesid=7sent backcheckSet-Cookiesid=7from responsecheckCookiesid=7from requestcheckPath/pinnedcheckmatchyessame labelchecksent body bytes0empty body