I have a situation where I want to read the contents of a cookie in Go. However the contents of the cookie is in a JSON format. (Changing the format of the cookie is not an option)
For example the contents of the cookie might be:
{"id":"abc","data":"information","on_off":false}
In JavaScript I'm easily able to read the contents of the cookie and parse it.
With Go, on the other hand, when I try to read the cookie with r.Cookie('my_cookie')
I get the following error: http: named cookie not present
.
If I modify the cookie to a simple string, then it works as expected.
Does anyone know what to do in this case? Is it just not possible to read a such a cookie in Go?
When I use r.Header.Get["Cookie"]
, the output it returns does contain the cookie and it's JSON value (listed among all the other cookies)