Re: [Htmlunit-user] Cookies not getting set in HTMLUnit 2.23

[Ronald B. <rb...@rb...>]

Now i'm confused...

>   Suppose, I am using HTMLUnit in JS disabled mode and when I interact with a server and the server sends an HTML page
>    which has a Javascript for setting cookies using setcookie method.
>Please note that the response header does not contain
>   Set-Cookie.
>
>    How does HTMLUnit handle the above situation?. It looks like I need to enable JS. Is there a way to solve/work around this issue?

I think i have proposed a solution:

replace 

	mgr.addCookie(new Cookie(".jobdiva.com", "COMPANYLOGOLOCATION", "my_data", "/", -1, false));
by
         	webClient.addCookie("COMPANYLOGOLOCATION=my_data; Domain=.jobdiva.com; Path=/");

This should work.

	RBRi


>
>On 2 February 2017 at 01:59, Ronald Brill <rb...@rb...> wrote:
>
>> Ok Vasu,
>>
>> this was a really tricky one.
>>
>> You are interacting directly with the cookie manager in this way
>>
>>     final CookieManager mgr = webClient.getCookieManager();
>>    mgr.addCookie(new Cookie(".jobdiva.com", "COMPANYLOGOLOCATION",
>> "my_data", "/", -1, false));
>>
>> In this case you are responsible for all the cookie properties.
>> But there is some magic, if a web site sends a comparable cookie like
>> "COMPANYLOGOLOCATION=my_data; Domain=.jobdiva.com; Path=/".
>> Internally there is some cleanup before the cookie is added to the cookie
>> manager, in this case the leading dot will be removed from the domain.
>> When sending th cookies back the cookie matches now, because of the
>> removed dot at the start. This logic is more or less part of HttpClient
>> already.
>>
>> Ok, and what to do now?
>>
>> I guess you like to simulate some cookies sent from the server before you
>> are starting your request. I think the more correct way is to interact with
>> the webClient instead of the CookieManager directly because there is a way
>> to use the same magic as we use
>> when processing cookies from the real response.
>>
>>         webClient.addCookie("COMPANYLOGOLOCATION=my_data; Domain=.
>> jobdiva.com; Path=/");
>>
>> is your friend.
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>>         RBRi