Create Cookie

You can add cookies by using the ‘Create Cookie’ command.

The first argument is the name=value, e.g.

PHPSessionID=1213121

The second argument contain options for the cookie. Currenly ‘path’ and ‘max_age’ are supported.

The format is:

“path=/directory/, max_age=3600″

Create Cookie example

For example:

Delete Cookie

Cookies can also be deleted using the ‘Delete Cookie’ command. This take the cookie name as the first argument and the path as the second.

Delete Cookie example.

Full Example

In the following example, we visit a page, from which we get some cookies set by the server, we then add two cookies of our own, before deleting one of them.

Script with cookie create / delete

When we run the test, we get the following results:

Results of a test run

You are always able to view the cookies on any step that has interaction with the web server. After we have visited the page at step 1, we have the following cookies set:

Original cookies - set by server

After we set our own cookies at step 3 and 4 (CT and CT2), the next server interaction results in us having the following cookies set:

After manually added cookies

Note that the original cookies are still set, any new ones are just added.

In step 7 we delete one of the cookies we added (CT), we are left with the original ones from the server plus CT2:

After deleting the manual cookie CT

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