Zell Liew • 3/20/2022

Getting a cookie's expiry value on a server

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This technical article details two workarounds for retrieving a cookie's expiry timestamp on the server-side, as browsers do not send this value by default. It covers encoding the expiry within a JSON cookie value and using a separate companion cookie, with practical examples using Express.js and the cookie-parser middleware.

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