[hobbit] Possible to have Hobbit retain and use cookies?

[Martin Rogers]

Thanks for all the many responses and suggestions, I am impressed by the
community around this product!  I will probably have an opportunity to test
this out over the next couple of days; we do not have direct control over
the 'real' hobbit servers, so will have to duplicate in our test setup.

Martin

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 12 March 2008 12:48:20 Martin Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to do that without a code change? (our last resort!)
> >
> > It is not possible with Hobbit only at present, but it is quite trivial
> > to
> > write a script that uses curl, that would work.
> >
> > We test our webmail systems, which require a login (returning a cookie),
> > and
> > an inbox view (which requires the cookie) this way.
> >
>
> I'd second that - I'm doing about 1500 tests spread over about 600 hosts,
> all using curl with cookies, though I generally delete the cookie file at
> the top of the script to avoid "open session" confusion.  There's no reason
> not to keep on using the same cookie file, though.  Something like:
>
>    curl -s -S -L -b cookiejar -c cookiejar -o file.html
> http://server.domain.com
>
> may be all you need.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>
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