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Compulim
Compulim

Reputation: 1168

Creating a new WebDriver session reuse my cookies

When I start a new WebDriver session in Edge and browse to a website I previously signed in (with "remember me" cookie persisted in Edge), the WebDriver session will re-use my cookie and appear as signed in.

Is it possible to start a WebDriver session under Edge as InPrivate mode?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1671

Answers (2)

Rain9333
Rain9333

Reputation: 570

Just encounter that issue myself today so the only way I got it to work was pretty simple in the end. You have to check "Always clear this when I close the browser" in Edge settings (and select the things that you want to clear).

With that setting you will have clean session on each new driver initialization :)

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Upvotes: 2

Johnny
Johnny

Reputation: 15423

I'm not familiar with a way to start Edge session in InPrivate mode, but as an alternative you can clean your cookies in the @Before step of each test.

For example:

@Test
public void deleteAllCookiesExample() {
    driver = new ChromeDriver(); //initialize with Edge here
    String url ="http://www.example.com";
    driver.navigate().to(url);
    driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();
}

Or delete cookies with specific name:

@Test
public void deleteCookieNamedExample() {
    driver = new ChromeDriver(); //initialize with Edge here
    String URL="http://www.example.com";
    driver.navigate().to(URL);
    driver.manage().deleteCookieNamed("__utmb"); //example cookie name
}

P.S. In previous IE versions there was a bug with it, that cookies were not accessible until you visit the page. So consider reloading the page after that or try something like (it work in IE11):

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(caps);

Upvotes: 1

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