Are HTTP headers handled automatically by the browser in AJAX responses? - javascript

Here's my situation: I make an ajax post to a server endpoint, and it sends me back some JSON data in response. This JSON response also includes the Set-cookie header.
Does the cookie get set automatically when it's in a response to an ajax request, or do I have to read it out of the headers and do it manually?
(As opposed to the headers being present on the response to a form submit, where I know the browser will be handling the response and its headers on its own, no JS necessarily involved.)

Yes, it gets set automatically. An AJAX request is just an HTTP request. You can send Cookie headers, and receive Set-Cookie Headers normally.

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I have a problem with ajax request to Steam.
I want to get price from steam market.
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XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://steamcommunity.com/market/priceoverview/?country=US&currency=1&appid=730&market_hash_name=StatTrak%E2%84%A2%20P250%20%7C%20Steel%20Disruption%20%28Factory%20New%29. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://lоcalhоst:63342' is therefore not allowed access.
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For this to work, steamcommunity.com should either add CORS headers in the response (the error message you're seing means that they are not there), or format the output to be JSON-P. They didn't do either.
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