I'm trying to set a cookie in a protractor test case. We're using Protractor 3.3.0, Angular 1.5.x and Node.js 6.9.1
This is the spec:
(function() {
'use strict';
describe('Dummytest', function() {
beforeEach(function() {
browser.get('./');
});
it('should set a cookie', function() {
browser.manage().addCookie("test", "fail_cookie", '/', 'localhost');
});
});
})();
This is the error message I get:
Message:
Failed: {"errorMessage":"Unable to set Cookie","request":{"headers":{"Accept-Encoding":"gzip,deflate","Connection":"Keep-Alive","Content-Length":"165","Content-Type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","Host":"localhost:45556","User-Agent":"Apache-HttpClient/4.5.1 (Java/1.8.0_77)"},"httpVersion":"1.1","method":"POST","post":"{\"cookie\":{\"path\":\"/\",\"domain\":\"localhost\",\"name\":\"test\",\"httpOnly\":false,\"hCode\":3556498,\"secure\":false,\"value\":\"fail_cookie\",\"class\":\"org.openqa.selenium.Cookie\"}}","url":"/cookie","urlParsed":{"anchor":"","query":"","file":"cookie","directory":"/","path":"/cookie","relative":"/cookie","port":"","host":"","password":"","user":"","userInfo":"","authority":"","protocol":"","source":"/cookie","queryKey":{},"chunks":["cookie"]},"urlOriginal":"/session/68875d10-f7b4-11f6-8f37-71161903ed83/cookie"}}
Build info: version: '2.52.0', revision: '4c2593c', time: '2016-02-11 19:06:42'
System info: host: 'XXXXXXXXX', ip: '10.##.##.230', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_77'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
Stack:
UnableToSetCookieError: {"errorMessage":"Unable to set Cookie","request":{"headers":{"Accept-Encoding":"gzip,deflate","Connection":"Keep-Alive","Content-Length":"165","Content-Type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","Host":"localhost:45556","User-Agent":"Apache-HttpClient/4.5.1 (Java/1.8.0_77)"},"httpVersion":"1.1","method":"POST","post":"{\"cookie\":{\"path\":\"/\",\"domain\":\"localhost\",\"name\":\"test\",\"httpOnly\":false,\"hCode\":3556498,\"secure\":false,\"value\":\"fail_cookie\",\"class\":\"org.openqa.selenium.Cookie\"}}","url":"/cookie","urlParsed":{"anchor":"","query":"","file":"cookie","directory":"/","path":"/cookie","relative":"/cookie","port":"","host":"","password":"","user":"","userInfo":"","authority":"","protocol":"","source":"/cookie","queryKey":{},"chunks":["cookie"]},"urlOriginal":"/session/68875d10-f7b4-11f6-8f37-71161903ed83/cookie"}}
Build info: version: '2.52.0', revision: '4c2593c', time: '2016-02-11 19:06:42'
System info: host: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX', ip: '10.##.##.230', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_77'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
at WebDriverError (C:\Users\[username]\dev\project\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\error.js:27:5)
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
I've done some further experiments. Notice that I've changed the domain, and that there is no browser.get before the successful cookie read/write.
(function() {
'use strict';
describe('Dummytest', function() {
it('should set a cookie', function() {
browser.manage().addCookie("test", "fail_cookie", '/', '127.0.0.1');
browser.manage().getCookie('test').then(function(cookie) {
console.log('cookie test', cookie);
browser.get('./');
browser.manage().getCookie('test').then(function(cookie) {
console.log('cookie test 2', cookie);
});
});
});
});
})();
And this is the output I get:
cookie test { path: '/',
domain: '127.0.0.1',
name: 'test',
httpOnly: false,
hCode: 3556498,
secure: false,
value: 'fail_cookie',
class: 'org.openqa.selenium.Cookie' }
cookie test 2 null
As you can see the cookie is not set for the domain I arrive at when calling browser.get('./'). How can I set a cookie for that domain without triggering the error in my original question?
EDIT 2:
Found another question (Setting cookies before browser.get) that says to call browser.driver.get first, and then setting the cookie, but doing that I get the same UnableToSetCookieError as I've always been getting. So the solution is something else.
EDIT 3:
On a semi-related note I've been having a real hard time finding documentation for the addCookie function and its parameters. Especially now since in the latest (as of 2016-01-31) version of protractor it expects an object and not a list of parameters. But I finally found it and thought I might as well include a link here: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/022644c47c643ce6fe797d65e074329190129c1b/javascript/node/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js#L1075
EDIT 4:
Getting closer! Setting the domain to .localhost (notice the dot (.) at the beginning) seems to work. Will do further investigations and report back. In the meantime, if anyone can tell my why the dot is significant and why that exact domain works I'd be very grateful :)
