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std/http/cookie.ts>deleteCookie

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function deleteCookie
import { deleteCookie } from "https://deno.land/std@0.201.0/http/cookie.ts";

Set the cookie header with empty value in the headers to delete it

Note: Deleting a Cookie will set its expiration date before now. Forcing the browser to delete it.

Examples

Example 1

import { deleteCookie } from "https://deno.land/std@0.201.0/http/cookie.ts";

const headers = new Headers();
deleteCookie(headers, "deno");

const cookieHeader = headers.get("set-cookie");
console.log(cookieHeader); // deno=; Expires=Thus, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

Parameters

headers: Headers

The headers instance to delete the cookie from

name: string

Name of cookie

optional
attributes: { path?: string; domain?: string; }

Additional cookie attributes