{"id": "internals:internals-response-set-cookie", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-response-set-cookie", "title": "Setting cookies with response.set_cookie()", "content": "To set cookies on the response, use the  response.set_cookie(...)  method. The method signature looks like this: \n                 def set_cookie(\n    self,\n    key,\n    value=\"\",\n    max_age=None,\n    expires=None,\n    path=\"/\",\n    domain=None,\n    secure=False,\n    httponly=False,\n    samesite=\"lax\",\n): ... \n                 You can use this with  datasette.sign()  to set signed cookies. Here's how you would set the  ds_actor cookie  for use with Datasette  authentication : \n                 response = Response.redirect(\"/\")\nresponse.set_cookie(\n    \"ds_actor\",\n    datasette.sign({\"a\": {\"id\": \"cleopaws\"}}, \"actor\"),\n)\nreturn response", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"Response class\"]", "references": "[]"}