Best way to check if cookies are enabled in browser

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Hi,

I’ve created a Meteor Angular project.
When the browser’s cookies are disabled the browser console shows:

You are running a browser with no localStorage or userData support. Logging in from one tab will not cause another tab to be logged in.

Is there a recommended way of checking that cookies are enabled and then displaying a message to the user to enable it?

TIA

2

Set a cookie variable. Then immediately retrieve the cookie and check the value.

3

Hi @rjdavid,

Thanks for the reply.

I ended up using the following code to check if the browser cookie is enabled when they attempt to log in:

  are_cookies_enabled()
  {
    var cookieEnabled = (navigator.cookieEnabled) ? true : false;
  
    if (typeof navigator.cookieEnabled == "undefined" && !cookieEnabled)
    { 
      document.cookie="testcookie";
      cookieEnabled = (document.cookie.indexOf("testcookie") != -1) ? true : false;
    }
    return (cookieEnabled);
  }

If cookies are disabled, I flow to a view informing the user to enable cookies and log them out.

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This is in my backlog and I’ll be copying your code. :slight_smile:

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