I have JMeter test where after one request in response headers is set cookie with Max-Age property.
In following requests I am sending cookie in request body.
After Max-Age time pass I expect that jmeter stops sending cookie in request body. But it stil sends cookie.
I am using HTTP Cookie Manager with Cookie policy: standard-strict
Am I using HTTP Cookie Manager right?
How Cookie Manager handles Max-Age parameter in set-cookie in response header?
HTTP Cookie Manager doesn't send anything in the request body, it automatically parses incoming cookies and generates appropriate Cookie header
Looking into JMeter source code STANDARD_STRICT policy stands for RFC6265CookieSpecProvider with STRICT compatibility level
In its turn RFC6265CookieSpecProvider in STRICT mode invokes BasicMaxAgeHandler
So given you have HttpClient4 implementation of your HTTP Request sampler(s) (or even better in HTTP Request Defaults) the Max-Age check functionality should work (unless there is a bug in the HTTPClient itself)
I listed all cookies with preprocessor and cookie has set expires property to 12:43:12 and current time is 12:45:35 (current time is in milliseconds) ... so it seems that cookie with expires property does not work
PreProcessor: Cookie n° 2: sticky_fo: http://10.64.128.238:30701 expires: 1611146592 Current time: 1611146735233
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I cannot modify anything on user.properties to add next line CookieManager.save.cookies=true because I run my scripts from a remote machine in which I don't have access to.
I am able to capture the Cookie using a Regular Expression Extractor from RESPONSE HEADER in Login and save it in a variable 'Cookie_cp'. I tried adding 'Cookie_cp' on HTTP Cookie Manager and also tried adding it on HTTP Header Manager, but JMeter sends the cookie only on REQUEST BODY, but not the REQUEST HEADER.
Another issue is that 'Cookie_cp' is being captured from second step's RESPONSE HEADER and applied to third step, while I need this cookie to be applied only from Login to all other steps.
Any help please?
JMeter sends the cookie(s) in the Cookie header, not in the request body, if you're using View Results Tree listener to inspect the request and it shows the cookie in the "Request Body" tab it's kind of misleading.
In fact JMeter does send the cookie(s) in the Cookie header, you can double check it using a sniffer tool like Wireshark
If you want to send the cookie (or any other header) with all the requests starting from second one you can:
Put these requests under a Simple Controller
Add HTTP Cookie Manager (or HTTP Header Manager) at the same level as these requests
Both Cookie and Header manager obey JMeter Scoping Rules so the header(s) will be added to all Simple Controller's children
I have placed cookie manager above the thread group.I have extracted cookie value from sampler request(request1) using regex extractor.I have placed cookie manager with extracted cookie values under the sampler(request2).
When i replayed the script the cookie is not set for request2.It shows no cookies.
NOTE:
When I removed the cookie manager placed above the thread group I am getting errors in samplers.
I have placed cookie manager above the thread group.I have extracted cookie value from sampler request(request1) using regex extractor.I have placed cookie manager with extracted cookie values under the sampler(request2).
When i replayed the script the cookie is not set for request2.It shows no cookies.
NOTE:
When I removed the cookie manager placed above the thread group I am getting errors in samplers.
HTTP Cookie Manager handles incoming cookies automatically, it:
Extracts the cookies from the Set-Cookie response header
On subsequent requests if domain and path of the request matches the ones of the cookie(s) the cookie is being added to the request's Cookie header
So there is no need to use any post processors for extracting the cookies.
If the cookie manager is "not working" most probably there is a problem with the cookie, i.e. it's expired or domain of the request is different or something like this. If you want to see what's going on under the hood you can increase JMeter logging verbosity for the cookie manager by adding the next line to log4j2.xml file:
<Logger name="org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control" level="debug" />
if there are issues with cookies and JMeter is unwilling to add the cookie you can force it by
Choosing less restrictive policy, i.e. netscape
Adding the next line to user.properties file:
CookieManager.check.cookies=false
More information: HTTP Cookie Manager Advanced Usage - A Guide
I upgraded my JMeter from 3.0 to 5.4.3 due to log4j issue however I am now getting an issue on cookie handling:
JMeter 3.0
JMeter 5.4
As you can see in the result, the grid-sid-axxx was moved after JSESSIONID=z-dxxx which is causing session errors on my side. How can I interchanged these cookie value so I can avoid the session issue due to interchanged cookie value.
There were no change the HTTP Cookie Manager, HTTP Header Manager and HTTP Request samplers
Thanks,
As per the specification:
Although cookies are serialized linearly in the Cookie header,
servers SHOULD NOT rely upon the serialization order. In particular,
if the Cookie header contains two cookies with the same name (e.g.,
that were set with different Path or Domain attributes), servers
SHOULD NOT rely upon the order in which these cookies appear in the
header.
so my expectation is that the order of cookies which are being sent in Cookie header is not important and the request should be successful given both cookies are present.
So it may worth contacting your application developers in order to get the issue fixed on their end.
Also it's always possible to extract cookies from the response using Regular Expression Extractor and add the HTTP Header Manager configured to send the Cookie header with the values in the order your want.
Below is the cookie which i generated in my postman,
CAKEPHP=4c0nshbqn0vnsn92665dt23lsrpns; Path=/; Domain=.devappium.bizom.in; Secure; HttpOnly; Expires=Sun, 02 May 2021 13:58:52 GMT;
I have added the same in http cookie manager but still it is not working.Let me know whether is there anything wrong in my configuration
Cookie name is CAKEPHP and should check also Secure
Normally you should not be manually adding cookies, JMeter's HTTP Cookie Manager automatically extracts the cookies from the server's response Set-Cookie header and stores them internally in the HTTP Cookie manager (given the cookies are valid)
Then when you make a next request the HTTP Cookie Manager checks domain and path and if there is a match - it adds the cookie to the request by generating appropriate Cookie header
The same applies to manually added cookies, if you cannot see the cookie being added to the request you can:
check the domain and path
you can turn off JMeter's cookie verification logic by choosing a less restrictive implementation, i.e. netscape
there is also a property which completely turns off cookies verification, if you add the next line to user.properties file:
CookieManager.check.cookies=false
this way JMeter will store each and every incoming cookie
and last but not the least you can increase JMeter's logging verbosity for the HTTP Cookie Manager by adding the following line to log4j2.xml file:
<Logger name="org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control" level="debug" />
finally you can always add a HTTP Header Manager and configure it to send the Cookie header with the value you're using in Postman
According this this post, Jmeter's cookie manager does not automatically extract and send HTTP-only cookies.
Is it possible to force JMeter to send HTTP only cookies?
JMeter should normally handle HttpOnly cookies.
Evidence:
Request 1 - you can see that NID cookies is HttpOnly
Request 2 - you can see that JMeter sends NID cookie which is HttpOnly
It might be the case the cookie, you're receiving does not correspond to the standard therefore JMeter rejects it, if this is the case you can do the following:
Raise the issue in order to fix the cookie on the application under test side
Change Cookie Policy value in the HTTP Cookie Manager to something less restrictive, i.e. netscape
Add CookieManager.check.cookies=false line to user.properties file - it disables JMeter cookies integrity check.
More information: HTTP Cookie Manager Advanced Usage - A Guide