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Why i can't set a cookie from the api?

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Mawhadmd posted this in #help-forum
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MawhadmdOP
The problem here is that when i click a button, a server action is invoked, and then the server action calls the api, and the api needs to set a cookie. Now what i don't understand is why am i able to set cookies in server actions and not api? aren't they the same thing (endpoints).

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Asian black bear
If your server is calling the external API which sets a cookie it tries to set it for the server. It has no knowledge of the client. Your server code needs to set the cookie for the client based on the API response.