jquery - Prevent Cookies From Being Sent on AJAX Request

Question

I have a web service that I invoke from script but that does not need any information stored in cookies. Anytime I make a request to the service, the cookie is sent along with it. I understand that by default cookies are sent with HTTP request, but is there any way at all to override that behavior and not send the cookie?

In a nutshell, I am issuing my request like this:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    cache: false,
    url: url,
    data: data,
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(response) { successFunc(response); },
    error: function(xhr) { errorFunc(xhr); }
});

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2829201/prevent-cookies-from-being-sent-on-ajax-request

Answer 1

Send AJAX requests to cookie-less subdomain on your server. So you app is www.mydomain.com and ajax requests are served from api.mydomain.com which you never set a cookie on. Also a great idea to do this with static files like images etc...

see the "Use Cookie-free Domains for Components" section of http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html