Setting up a cookie via proxy

Question

I am using a proxy in the dev environment because I want to use real domain while using the "Edit and Continue" feature that works only on localhost.

I have configured www.site.com on my local machine with custom host. (simple html page)

I have this app: localhost:9090 which is my asp.net mvc app on my local pc. www.site.com call via ajax cors to localhost:9090 , but localhost cant create cookies with the domain " .site.com ".

So, I have created: widgets.site.com with custom host as a REVERSE PROXY to localhost:9090 so I can keep using Edit And Continue Feature.

How can my localhost set a cookie to the wildcard domain " .site.com " ? (Remember, widgets.site.com is a proxy to localhost:9090 )

Here is the reverse proxy:

<rewrite>   
    <rules>
        <rule name="ReverseProxyInboundRule1" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="(.*)" />
            <action type="Rewrite" url="http://localhost:9090/{R:1}" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{HTTP_COOKIE}" pattern="(.*)" />
          </conditions>
          <serverVariables>
            <set name="HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING" value="" />
            <set name="HTTP_COOKIE" value="{c:1}" />
          </serverVariables>
        </rule>
    </rules>
    <outboundRules>
        <rule name="ReverseProxyOutboundRule1" preCondition="ResponseIsHtml1">
            <match filterByTags="A, Form, Img" pattern="^http(s)?://widgets.site.com/(.*)" />
            <action type="Rewrite" value="http{R:1}://localhost/{R:2}" />
        </rule>
        <preConditions>
            <preCondition name="ResponseIsHtml1">
                <add input="{RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE}" pattern="^text/html" />
            </preCondition>
        </preConditions>
    </outboundRules>
</rewrite>

Answer 1

According to this you should be able to Set-Cookie for .domain.tld and it should work for www.domain.tld . However from my tests it seems that it works on domain.tld as well (in firefox).

PS You can skip reverse proxy altogether by adding 127.0.0.1 widgets.site.com to C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts | /etc/hosts . Then your machine would resolve widgets.site.com to 127.0.0.1 .