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How do you reuse cookies between SeleniumRC sessions?

I'd like to run Selenium-RC and have it remember the cookies saved from the last time it was run. Is this possible?

Solution

  • Selenium server starts new profile for browser everytime, so your saved cookies and bookmarks do not exist on this profile.

    First create a profile, for firefox it is given here

    then bundle this profile to your selenium server like this

    SeleniumServer server = new SeleniumServer();
RemoteControlConfiguration rcc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
//rcc.setPort(4444);
File newFirefoxProfileTemplate = new File(ReadConFile.readcoFile("fiefoxProfilePath"));

rcc.setFirefoxProfileTemplate(newFirefoxProfileTemplate);
server = new SeleniumServer(rcc);
server.start();
DefaultSelenium selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome",ReadConFile.readcoFile("serverName"));

    to know your firefoxTemplate click this

    After doing this, manually open browser for this profile and save your cookies, bookmarks , certificates(very helpful for https).