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    copied!<p>I have an api endpoint for static S3 hosted site. The S3 site lives on the domain name: www.mysite.com</p> <p>My api (django) runs on the site the domain name: api.mysite.com</p> <p>When I use my login button on my site and sign in using proper username/password django sends back response with a Set-Cookie but the browser doesn't set any cookies. You can see the full response below,</p> <pre><code>Request URL:http://api.mysite.com:8000/api/form/login/ Request Method:POST Status Code:200 OK Request Headersview source Accept:*/* Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8 Cache-Control:no-cache Connection:keep-alive Content-Length:46 Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 Host:api.mysite.com:8000 Origin:http://mysite.com Pragma:no-cache Referer:http://mysite.com/eventform.html User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/25.0.1364.160 Chrome/25.0.1364.160 Safari/537.22 Form Dataview sourceview URL encoded token:68f4ebd02c0e1915d3e3110a04fccb0ab670aeab Response Headersview source Access-Control-Allow-Origin:* Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8 Date:Mon, 13 May 2013 22:21:54 GMT Server:WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.3 Set-Cookie:sessionid=3kn2hovtweeofalf00ld3lowb6yvete; Domain=.mysite.com; expires=Mon, 27-May-2013 22:21:54 GMT; Max-Age=1209600; Path=/ Vary:Cookie </code></pre> <p>note the line <code>Set-Cookie:sessionid=3kn2hovtweeofalf00ld3lowb6yvete; Domain=.mysite.com; expires=Mon, 27-May-2013 22:21:54 GMT; Max-Age=1209600; Path</code>=/</p> <p>In Django I have the SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = '.mysite.com'</p> <p>but I've tried changing it to 'mysite.com' and '' neither of which has allowed my browser to set this returned cookie.</p> <p>www.msyite.com is a static site hosted on Amazon S3 but I'm using Django as my api/backend for data. </p> <p>When I render my login pages using Django they work just fine (login/logout cookies and sessions all work fine, so I know it's not my django code) but when using S3 or even a python SimpleHTTPServer the browser doesn't set the returned cookie.</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p>
 

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