Document.cookie returns empty string if any cookie in the domain has non-ASCII characters

[Tim Lenz]

A single cookie in my domain will occasionally store a non-ASCII value, such as an accented 'á'. I know this isn't ideal, but Chrome (36.0.1985.143 m, Windows 7) won't return ANY cookie from the domain even if only one cookie is problematic. A javascript call to document.cookie in the console returns the empty string "", whereas in Firefox and other browsers, it will at least return the list of cookies, with non-ASCII characters appearing as a question mark '?'. I expect people will tell me to encode or not use non-ASCII characters in cookies but to fix this is more of a long-term project so it would be nice if Chrome behaved the same way as Firefox in this instance. 

[PhistucK]

When I set a cookie with that character (in the console), document.cookie returns the cookies as usual.

document.cookie = "p=á;" + document.cookie;

document.cookie // Returns all of the cookies, including the one I just set.

Does that work for you?

If so, are you setting the cookie server side?

☆PhistucK

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Tim Lenz <tcl...@gmail.com> wrote:

A single cookie in my domain will occasionally store a non-ASCII value, such as an accented 'á'. I know this isn't ideal, but Chrome (36.0.1985.143 m, Windows 7) won't return ANY cookie from the domain even if only one cookie is problematic. A javascript call to document.cookie in the console returns the empty string "", whereas in Firefox and other browsers, it will at least return the list of cookies, with non-ASCII characters appearing as a question mark '?'. I expect people will tell me to encode or not use non-ASCII characters in cookies but to fix this is more of a long-term project so it would be nice if Chrome behaved the same way as Firefox in this instance. 

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