nodejs isn't getting default cookie that django sets for users - django

Question

I have just pushed a web app into production and requests to my nodejs no longer contain the user cookie that Django has been setting by default on my localhost (where it was working).
my nodejs looks for the cookie like this
io.configure(function(){
io.set('authorization', function(data, accept){
if (data.headers.cookie) {
data.cookie = cookie_reader.parse(data.headers.cookie);
return accept(null, true);
}
return accept('error',false);
});
io.set('log level',1);
});
and on localhost has been getting this
cookie: 'username="name:1V7yRg:n_Blpzr2HtxmlBOzCipxX9ZlJ9U"; password="root:1V7yRg:Dos81LjpauTABHrN01L1aim-EGA"; csrftoken=UwYBgHUWFIEEKleM8et1GS9FuUPEmgKF; sessionid=6qmyso9qkbxet4isdb6gg9nxmcnw4rp3' },
in the request header.
But in production, the header is the same but except no more cookie. Does Django only set this on localhost? How can I get it working in production?
I've tried setting these in my settings.py
CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN = '.example.com'
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE = True
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True
SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = False
But so far no good.
Any insight would be great.

Answer 1

I just figured it out. I was making a request to nodejs on the client like this
Message.socket = io.connect('http://123.456.789.10:5000');
Where I used my respective IP address and port that my nodejs was listening on. This is considered cross domain so browsers won't include cookies in the request. Easy fix by changing it to
Message.socket = io.connect('http://www.mydomain.com:5000');