Whats happening to my set-cookie header?

Question

I'm writing a desktop client for a Django app running on an https domain.
I'm attempting to retrieve cookies set by the django site when I call the site using URLRequest as follows:
var urlVariables = new air.URLVariables();
urlVariables.foo = "bar"
var request = new air.URLRequest("https://www.example.com/api/foo/");
request.data = urlVariables;
request.method = air.URLRequestMethod.POST;
var loader = new air.URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(air.HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS, httpStatusHandler);
loader.addEventListener(air.Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
loader.addEventListener(air.IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
loader.load(request);
However if I loop over the headers returned by the site like so...
function httpStatusHandler(event){
    for(var i=0; i<event.responseHeaders.length; i++){
       air.trace(event.responseHeaders[i].name);
...I discover that that the Set-Cookies header is conspicuously absent.
Is this a deliberate security restriction for calls to HTTPS sites? I'm completely baffled.
Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Go into the System Preferences and click on Users & Groups. Try creating a new user account and then log into it to see if you have the same issues. Since your hard drive appears to be fine with plenty of space on it, and you have no major permission's issues, creating a new user for test purposes will help confirm whether you are dealing with some sort of software issue. Did you recently install some new software?
If a new user account resolves the issue then open the Activity Monitor application located in the Applications/Utiliteis folders and click on the CPU button. In the lower left corner you should see a summary listing the % User, % System, % Idle. What are these percentages? If the CPU idle percentage is near zero then you have a process running that is consuming your SPU time. To try and find it pull down the menu to select 'All Processes', then click on the %CPU column to sort by the percent that each process is consuming your CPU.   The numbers constantly change, but do your best to see if there are one or two processes consuming the majority of the CPU time and post the names. Then do the same test in the new user account. I suspect you may have some process from a previously installed utility, virus checker, etc. that is keeping your system busy. I've included a screenshot from my system below. It doesn't have much going on, and as you can see in the lower left corner the CPU is basically idle most of the time. If I were to launch a CPU intensive app the numbers would change dramatically.