Setting custom cookie.

[MLN]

I want to set a custom cookie while making a HTTP request. any pointers to how this must be done?

Thanks

[Stéphane Landelle]

Hi,

Before answering your question, could you please explain your use case?

How come you send cookies that didn't come from the server in the first place?

Stéphane

2013/1/9 MLN <mlnkr...@gmail.com>

[MLN]

hi,

The user reaches my application via a hand-off from another application, which sets a certain cookie. I want to run the gatling tests starting from my application (after the hand-off).

MLN

[Stéphane Landelle]

OK, makes sense

Currently, you'll have to hack and manually initialize the CookieStore that's stored in the user Session.

.exec(session => {

import java.net.URI

import com.ning.http.client.Cookie

import com.excilys.ebi.gatling.http.cookie.CookieStore

val customCookie = new Cookie("TODOdomain", "TODOname", "TODOvalue", "TODOpath", 100000000, false)

val cookieStore = CookieStore(new URI("TODOuri"), List(customCookie))

session.set("gatling.http.cookies", cookieStore)

})

You'll probably have to first use a Feeder in order to populate the TODOXXX values into the session, and then use session.getAttribute in order to retrieve them.

I guess it could be interesting to have a built-in for populating cookies... I will open an issue for 2.0.

Cheers,

Stéphane

2013/1/9 MLN <mlnkr...@gmail.com>

[MLN]

Thanks.

[Stéphane Landelle]

You're welcome.

For the record, I've opened a feature request:

https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/902

2013/1/9 MLN <mlnkr...@gmail.com>

[usul]

Hi,

I have done this very easily with headers in a simulation : 

...

.headers(headers ++ Map("Cookie" -> "myCookieId=${VALUE_FROM_FEEDER}", ...)

...

Cheers

[Stéphane Landelle]

But if you do that, your "manual" cookie will only be sent on the request it's declared. Unless the server returns it in the response, it won't make it into the CookieStore, and won't be sent with the next requests.

2013/1/9 usul <fdus...@gmail.com>

[usul]

Yes, my needs are for "one shot" cookie :)

[test user]

how do I set multiple cookies using `.headers`. Is it possible?