Clear session cookies with Selenium IDE?

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I'm writing Selenium tests for an ASP application, and would like to test the cases when a session isn't properly initialized. Right now I'm clearing the cookies manually, but that is becoming a bit cumbersome.

(ok, to be honest I forget it every fifth-or-so time and have to re-run the tests...)

Is there a way in Selenium IDE to clear session cookies or fake a browser re-start?

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 03 '10 at 10:43

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Found it myself, when I stopped thinking in terms of clear and tried delete:

deleteAllVisibleCookies

answered Feb 03 '10 at 10:43

Anders Lindahl

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deleteAllVisibleCookies doesn't clear the session cookies effectively. It olny clears the cookies of the currently visible domain. – Kfir Nov 15 '11 at 11:13
Is there another way to delete all cookies for visible and non-visible domains? – Chris Feb 23 '12 at 02:29
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Use `driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();` to delete all cookies both visible and non-visible. – giri-sh Sep 09 '15 at 11:16
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You can do this in IDE? I dont think so. – miky Aug 29 '16 at 14:12
Nope, does not work for IDE. (Selenium IDE 3.17.2 and Firefox 97.0) – Flo Bayer Feb 11 '22 at 10:44

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '12 at 08:19

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I've found it most useful to simply begin all tests with a call to my logout page, and on that page purposely expire any sessions the user may have.

answered Sep 26 '12 at 08:19

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It seems like selenium won't delete HttpOnly cookies in firefox...? http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=615 – Cory Mawhorter Dec 20 '12 at 22:35
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I don't get Selenium to delete the cookie I get my logout page to delete them. – Matthew Lock Dec 21 '12 at 00:19
I've found myself in the same place at the end :) +1 – hek2mgl Mar 06 '14 at 16:53

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 16 '13 at 16:22

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deleteAllVisibleCookies

and put the site url in target

answered Apr 16 '13 at 16:22

Mai Hanafy

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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use deletecookies or deleteAllVisibleCookies below is the example and you can get solution from here

<tr>
<td>open</td>
<td>www.google.co.in</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
 <tr>
<td>deleteAllVisibleCookies</td>
 <td>PREF</td>
 <td>domain=.google.co.in, recurse=true</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
<td>deleteAllVisibleCookies</td>
<td>NID</td>
  <td>domain=.google.co.in, recurse=true</td>
 </tr>

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Apr 20 '13 at 06:38

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 30 '13 at 22:29

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I had the same problem in a PHP Project.

deleteAllVisibleCookies() removed too much for me. E.g. if a cookie for a rememberMe function was created by the application.

Instead I used $this->deleteCookie('PHPSESSID'); which delete the session.

answered Mar 30 '13 at 22:29

Jesper Grann Laursen

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