Issue with HttpClient cookies in Blazor

I built a Blazor web app and now I am trying to implement authentication. I created a controller API and I used HttpClient to send requests to the API controller, but for some reason, when I call signInAsync, the cookies expire immediately with the date set to 1 jan 1970, even though I configured the cookie policy in program.cs.

This is how it looks like:

builder.Services.AddAuthentication(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)    .AddCookie(options =>    {        options.Cookie.SecurePolicy = CookieSecurePolicy.Always;        options.Cookie.SameSite = SameSiteMode.Strict;        options.Cookie.Name = "Test";         options.Cookie.Path = "/";         options.ExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromDays(1);    });

This is the controller:

using System.Security.Claims;using Domains.Users;using Interfaces.Users;using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication;using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies;using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;namespace Implementations.Controllers;[Route("/api")][ApiController]public class LoginController:ControllerBase{    private readonly IUserService userService;    public LoginController(IUserService userService)    {        this.userService = userService;    }    [HttpPost]    [Route("Login")]    public async Task<IActionResult> Login([FromForm] string userEmail , [FromForm] string userPassword)    {        try        {           var status = await userService.CheckUserCredentials(userEmail,userPassword);            if (status == Domains.Users.User.LoginStatus.allowed)            {                var userClaims = new[] { new Claim(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier,Guid.NewGuid().ToString())};                var identity = new ClaimsIdentity(userClaims,CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme);                var principal = new ClaimsPrincipal(identity);                var props = new AuthenticationProperties();                await HttpContext.SignInAsync(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme,principal, props);                return Ok();            }            if (status == Domains.Users.User.LoginStatus.blocked)            {                return BadRequest("Account not found ");            }            else if (status == Domains.Users.User.LoginStatus.passwordWrong)            {                return BadRequest("Please verify your password ");            }        }        catch (Exception e)        {            return BadRequest("Error while logging in");        }        return BadRequest();    }}

Finally this is where the HTTP request happens:

private async Task Login(){    var dic = new Dictionary<string, string>()    {        { "userEmail", userModel.userEmail },        { "userPassword", userModel.userPassword }    };    var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(dic);    var response=await _httpClient.PostAsync($"{NavigationManager.BaseUri}api/Login", content).ConfigureAwait(false);}

I tried some solution from chat got but to no availanother attempt was adding this

   var props = new AuthenticationProperties        {            ExpiresUtc = DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(20),            IsPersistent = true        };

in the headers it appears as though it worked and the expiration date / time for the cookie has changed although last expires label (1 jan A970 ) stays the same but the

Response headers:

StatusCode: 200, ReasonPhrase: 'OK', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionResponseContent, Headers:{  Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:25:53 GMT  Server: Kestrel  Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store  Pragma: no-cache  Set-Cookie: aze=CfDJ8CfJyZrgmJFNtisBTR-Xg2UBtV3BnF8s0y1WpmkE-JzGLIdYlIvu1m3WUyyD4BAyvLhPJhAO-8TbCXLmK5mUv33yJzWtfcS4yvwqptCPY2Zpky8pmxNRDei_eW8u6_ZILd6F9VhnrGpo1YjgbOSArjlAXdAvpYFFAKUs6_i1fwivm5sgBeZJ4fBinBPz694d5nJhDOkzrHjX23bVnl8ya072M_MNsxd8xIAUAy216VmfvcNVmhURw1sAzleKjCrCsUtzSR1D3X40jRGtEC6U1KDWbC2c5Np64eUckV5qmklbPBlL5lYsAOKOuNj0x2yhtzbftnbNCKSJ9lQgug-bvOMLM5suqKK4gj2KcLJfSvDdKqdiuiVlMgIsqvSgZPORVf2b8Zg38PtUbuETq68rpAAsPYyextXyjfATqzJenIuJ9hGDug-cpNe9fnc5brus-A; expires=Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:25:52 GMT; path=/; samesite=lax; httponly  Content-Length: 0  Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT}, Trailing Headers:{}

but when I inspect in the browser I cant find it under the application - cookies section for some reason