gapi.auth2.ExternallyVisibleError: Invalid cookiePolicy

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KoJoVe picture KoJoVe · Oct 1, 2015 · Viewed 22.7k times · Source

I'm trying to add a Google Sign In Authentication system to my app, but I keep getting a strange error that I haven't seen anyone get. I'm using EXACTLY the google example code.

I thought it could be some mistake when loading the api, so I checked the async loading and everything seems to be loading properly, but I keep getting this error in the console:

gapi.auth2.ExternallyVisibleError: Invalid cookiePolicy

I searched everywhere for people with the same problem, but I could not find anything similar.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I tried to create a page with ONLY the code of the tutorial, but the error still occurs.

Answer

KoJoVe picture KoJoVe · Oct 2, 2015

Well, turns out I was trying to test the API by directly acessing my files locally (index.html). The Google Sign In API only works in a running web server. I started a simple node.js server, ran my app trhough this server, and everthing worked just fine.

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