Disable automatic cookie handling?

Gatling (Open-Source)
1

I want to have my own cookie handling.

Gatling 3.3

2

No, it’s not.
Could you please explain how it would make sense to not have cookie handling working as specified in RFC6265?
What’s your use case exactly?

3

Hi Stéphane

Oh, I see. The wording on https://gatling.io/docs/current/http/http_helpers/ “Cookie support is enabled by default” seemed to imply there is a way to turn it off.

In my scenario, I have to deal with two cookies I want to use intermittently. I can store both in the session and apply the one I need in any given particular HTTP call.

The default Gatling approach overwrites the first cookie with the second one (while my own approach retains both and I can inject them directly in headers), as shown below.
Both cookies are issued by the same hostname, let’s say admin cookie and a user cookie:

override protected def setScenario(): ScenarioBuilder =
  scenario(getClass.getCanonicalName)
    .exec(postAdminLogin)
    .exec(postLogin)


    .exec(debugPrintSession)

POST /admin/login HTTP/1.1

< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=qvpq3dkqcjo88pfk9o4cm8eu71; expires=Wed, 04-Mar-2020 15:50:59 GMT; Max-Age=2592000; path=/

POST /login HTTP/1.1
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found

< Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=pp9rhofq02m6uk476mooph6780; expires=Wed, 04-Mar-2020 15:50:59 GMT; Max-Age=2592000; path=/

Session(io.gatling.stacker.scenarios.Sandbox,1,1580745055935,Map(gatling.http.cache.baseUrl → http://perfcomp, gatling.http.cache.dns → io.gatling.http.cache.DnsCacheSupport$$anon$1@e0654d5, adminCookie → PHPSESSID=qvpq3dkqcjo88pfk9o4cm8eu71, gatling.http.ssl.sslContexts → SslContexts(io.netty.handler.ssl.OpenSslClientContext@1fed69ad,None), gatling.http.referer → http://perfcomp, gatling.http.cookies → CookieJar(Map(CookieKey(phpsessid,perfcomp,/) → StoredCookie(PHPSESSID=pp9rhofq02m6uk476mooph6780, path=/, maxAge=2592000s,true,true,1580745059203))), userCookie → PHPSESSID=pp9rhofq02m6uk476mooph6780),29,OK,List(),io.gatling.core.protocol.ProtocolComponentsRegistry$$Lambda$387/1924990666@7e82439b)

Is there something I am missing?

Thanks!

4

Oh right, this sentence is indeed misleading, will fix.

Why don’t you Gatling cookie helpers to flush the cookie jar and add the cookie you need for the following request?

5

This is a solution I am thinking of, I just wondered if there is a more graceful one.

Thanks!