Cookies that exist in webpages only

[praj18]

Is there a way I can enable cookies to exist in specific paths only?

Meaning that if I want a cookie on a certain webpage e.g. 'hasUserVisited' and the value being 'abcdefg', to exist on path '/site/abcdefg', I also want one on '/site/hijklmno' with the same cookie name of 'hasUserVisited' and value of 'hijklmno'.

So if I go to a new webpage/path where the user has not visited, the value of 'hasUserVisited' should return null.

[carhartl]

You should be able to utilize the path cookie attribute for this. E.g.

if (Cookies.get('hasUserVisited')) {
  // User was here before…
} else {
  var currentPath = window.location.path
  Cookies.set('hasUserVisited', true, { path: currentPath })
}

There‘s one caveat though, this won’t work well within a hierarchy of pages, because a cookie at path /parent will also be available at path /parent/child and there is no way to get a cookie by path.

If all you want to do is track whether a visitor has visited particular sites and don‘t need to transmit this information back to the server (that‘s what cookies are for) you should probably be using localStorage for the job. It would let you store visited pages as key value pairs nicely (path, true).

[praj18]

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately, I need the information back in the server, so I'd need to use cookies. And because of the '/parent/child' path issue, I won't be able to this with the help of cookies. Thank you for your help though.