Session cookie not available in .cookie

Question

I see that the cookie is being sent through the Chrome Network Inspector:

Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8 Cache-Control:max-age=0 Connection:keep-alive Cookie:rack.session=BAh7B8kiD3Nlc3Npb25faWQGOgZFRiJFMmYwOTZmZGY1NDEzNGVhYWJhYjcz%0ANmUzYmE5NzYyZmRmM2EyYjk4YWNlNzYzNjdkOGI5MDFiNTU3MDg0NWUzY0ki%0ADXRyYWNraW5nBjsARnsISSIUSFRUUF9VU0VSX0FHRU5UBjsARiItMjVhMmFj%0AZDI5zWU2NTJkY2QyMzA4MzI3NmYxNTk2YjU2ZjBkNmUwNkkiGUhUVFBfQUND%0ARVBUX0VOQ09ESU5HBjsARiItZWQyYjNjYTkwYTRlNzIzNDAyMzY3YTFkMTdj%0AOGIyODM5Mjg0MjM5OEkiGUhUVFBfQUNDRVBUX0xBTkdVQUdFBjsARiItY2M5%0AZjZmZWM2NTJhNDI1OGJjNmQyOTI4NzA1MjE3OWFiMWUwZDE0Nw%3D%3D%0A--82a2216513ed8ce3bbcd0f2fe2162e7c40847499; test=whee Host:0.0.0.0:4567 User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17 

But when I dump document.cookie to the console, I don’t see this! All content of the file served:

 <script type="text/javascript"> console.log(document.cookie) </script> 

This is normal?

Answer 1

HttpOnly is an optional flag included in the HTTP Set-Cookie response header. Using the HttpOnly flag when creating a cookie helps to reduce the risk of the client side of the script accessing a secure cookie (if the browser supports it).