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Reez0
Reez0

Reputation: 2687

Is there a way to clear session data to ensure a clean session is initiated each time?

For IE you would use capabilities like this:

DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
cap.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);

and possibly in combination with

 driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

How could this be achieved using Chrome and ChromeDriver?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 16290

Answers (1)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193348

While we work with Internet Explorer Driver we use the field IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION

IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION

As per the JavaDocs IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION is the Capability that defines whether to clean or not browser cache before launching Internet Explorer by IEDriverServer and is configured as follows :

DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
cap.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);

Now let us have a look at GeckoDriver which follows the WebDriver Spec.

GeckoDriver / moz:profile / rust_mozprofile

If you have a closer look at the geckodriver logs closely you will observe that each time geckodriver is called a new moz:profile is scopped out and the details of rust_mozprofile occurs in the following line:

Marionette  CONFIG  Matched capabilities: {"browserName":"firefox","browserVersion":"56.0","platformName":"windows_nt","platformVersion":"6.2","pageLoadStrategy":"normal","acceptInsecureCerts":false,"timeouts":{"implicit":0,"pageLoad":300000,"script":30000},"rotatable":false,"specificationLevel":0,"moz:processID":5848,"moz:profile":"C:\\Users\\AtechM_03\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rust_mozprofile.OfFuR9ogm33d","moz:accessibilityChecks":false,"moz:headless":false}

This log clearly indicates that Marionette scoops out a new "moz:profile":"C:\\Users\\AtechM_03\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rust_mozprofile.OfFuR9ogm33d" and this configuration is handled by the WebDriver instance i.e. the GeckoDriver.

You can find a more detailed discussion on moz:profile in Is it Firefox or Geckodriver, which creates “rust_mozprofile” directory discussion.

ChromeDriver

ChromeDriver which is following the same WebDriver Spec does abides (will be abiding) by the same suite.

Incase you are using any stored FirefoxProfile or ChromeProfile, WebDriver will pick up the existing profile where the Stored Browser Configurations are picked up for reuse.

driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

Irespective of New/Existing FirefoxProfile or ChromeProfile if you add the line :

driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

Only the cookies gets deleted only to be get restored back to support the Active Browser Session

Upvotes: 6

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