Plain text cookies

[runmoore]

Is there any advantage to using Remix's Cookie API when working with plain text cookies. My understanding is the .parse() function decodes the cookie which it expects has been set with the .serialize() function.

If the cookie is plain, nothing will be returned. Example:

import { myCookie } from '~/cookies';

export async function loader({ request }) {
  const cookieHeader = request.headers.get('Cookie');
  const myCookieData = await myCookie.parse(cookieHeader);  // always null if the cookie is plain text
  ...
  return { data: myCookieData };  
}

Should I instead just use cookie.parse() from the cookie lib?

[kiliman]

Remix cookies are signed and encoded. If you try to parse a text cookie, it will fail because it's not in a valid format. Definitely use another cookie lib if you need control over the value.

[runmoore]

Is there any scope for not enforcing this and allowing plain text cookies?

The scenario I'm dealing with is a non-remix part of the site sets a plain text cookie, and I'm unable to read it using the Cookie API.