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Cookies
- Cookie
- Response Cookies

Cookies¶

Dynamic Values
Cookies

For general information about dynamic values and instructions on how to insert them in Paw see the introduction to dynamic values.

Send cookies in requests by adding a Cookie header.

Response Cookies

Response Cookies¶

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Sometimes you may need to manually send back the cookies a server set in a previous HTTP response (e.g. a login token, or session ID…). The server sets a Set-Cookie header in its HTTP response, and you may want to send back those cookies in a proper format in a subsequent HTTP request. The Response Cookies Dynamic Value will extract the cookies from a previous HTTP response, and format them in a way to be ready to be sent back in a Cookie header.

Example¶

Here’s an example scenario:

A request calls POST /api/login
The server sets a session ID cookie in the response: Set-Cookie: SESSION_ID=4242; Expires=Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:18:14 GMT
In the next request, you want to send back this cookie as Cookie: SESSION_ID=4242

In the Headers tab, add a new header named Cookie and right-click on the value field to pick Cookies > Response Cookies.

com.luckymarmot.ResponseCookiesDynamicValue

Argument: request: string: (current request)

The request UUID for which to get the latest response.

(current request)

Argument: includeCookiesMode: number: ``0`` (All cookies)

Which cookies should be included (0: All cookies, 1: Session cookies, 2: Persistent cookies).

0 (All cookies)

Argument: ignoreDomainAndPathMatch: bool: ``false``

Whether the dynamic value should ignore domain and path matching, and include all Cookies from the Response regardless of whether the domain and path matches the request.

false

function evaluate(context){
    var requestUuid = context.getRequestByName('Some Other Request').id;
    var dv = new DynamicValue('com.luckymarmot.ResponseCookiesDynamicValue', {
        'request': requestUuid,
        'includeCookiesMode': 1 /* Session cookies only */
    });
    return dv.getEvaluatedString();
};