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Cookies for API Clients: Set-Cookie Attributes, Path Scoping, HttpOnly, SameSite and requests Sessions

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Self-Hosting & Infra intermediate 6 min read $0.01 Updated 2026-10-20

Executed against a local server: two Set-Cookie headers, a session cookie sent to every path, a Path=/app cookie only sent under /app, HttpOnly detection, redirects (302) not followed with allow_redirects=False, and history for followed redirects.

Understand which cookies a client sends back, why a cookie set for /app is missing on /, what HttpOnly and SameSite do, and how requests.Session stores and replays cookies in scripts and agents.

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