Req.session in express session is not saved

Question

I have the following code:

var express = require('express'); var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser'); var http = require('http') var app = express(); app.use(cookieParser()); var session = require('express-session'); app.use(session({ resave: false, saveUninitialized: true, secret: 'sdlfjljrowuroweu', cookie: { secure: true } })); app.get('/test', test); function test(req, res) { var sess = req.session; console.log('before', sess); if (sess.views) { sess.views++ req.session.save(); res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html') res.write('<p>views: ' + sess.views + '</p>') res.write('<p>expires in: ' + (sess.cookie.maxAge / 1000) + 's</p>') res.end(); } else { sess.views = 1; req.session.save(); res.end('welcome to the session demo. refresh!') } console.log('after', sess); return; } var server = http.createServer(app); server.listen(8181); 

And reloading the page, I just get the message count count 0.

Checking the console, this is the output every time:

 before { cookie: { path: '/', _expires: null, originalMaxAge: null, httpOnly: true, secure: true } } after { cookie: { path: '/', _expires: null, originalMaxAge: null, httpOnly: true, secure: true }, views: 1 } 

So it looks like this is not persisting at all

Answer 1

Change cookie: { secure: true } to cookie: { secure: false }

using the secure flag means that the cookie will only be set on Https.