Broken method setCookie or document.cookie

[ghost]

Current behavior:

Can't set a cookie for a browser to recognize as the login user. The cookie should be a string with the format:

a41c0f40492c7a0ce155e4fde1d800a9; Path=/XXX-crm-api; HttpOnly

I tried both methods - setCookie and document.cookie. I do not see the cookie in browser memory if I set specified path other than "/'. If the path is not specified the cookie does not work properly.

Here I left the path empty, but as you can see Cypress ads "." before the domain.

Desired behavior:

Cookie is set properly and app redirects to the main site as a logged user. Test passes.

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

login_using_cookie.js:

describe('login using token', () => {
        it('should successfully log into our app', () => {
          Cypress.Cookies.debug(true)
          cy.loginViaCookie()
            .then(() => {
              cy.visit('/')
              cy.get('[class="icon-people"]').click()
            })
        });
}

commands.js:

Cypress.Commands.add('loginViaCookie', () => {
    Cypress.log({
        name: 'loginViaCookie'
    })

    return cy.request({
        method: 'POST',
        url: 'http://lab2.YYY:8080/XXX-crm-api/login',
        headers: {
            "Content-Type": "application/json"
        },
        body: {
            username: "a@admin.com",
            password: "Cypress111"
        },
    })
        .then((resp) => {
             //use document.cookie or setCookie
            // document.cookie = `authtoken=${resp.body.accessToken};path=/XXX-crm-ap;httpOnly: true`
            cy.setCookie('authtoken', resp.body.accessToken, {Path='/XXX-crm-api', httpOnly: true})
        })
})

Versions

Cypress v3.4.1
Chrome v76
Electron v61

[must-git-good]

I'll just +1 that setting cookies seems to have changed (broken) without us changing any code or Cypress versions.

In my case the error is 'TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined [even though we are successfully getting a token that should be set as a cookie.

Programmatic login DOES seem to work on Electron, but is broken in Chrome, and happens across our local systems but not on our CI (which is Chrome-pinned).

So it feels like something changed in how Chrome assigns cookies?

Edit: The above report looks like it's older Chrome, so maybe this isn't the issue, but I still think it's likely...the latest Chrome release seems to have done a bunch of work to how cookies are handled.

Anyone else have the issue? More information for the team to use to reconcile?

[flotwig]

Related: #5142 (changes between chrome 76 => 77)

[must-git-good]

Thanks for the link, flotwig. I'll dig into that ticket and see if it resolves our issues.

EDIT: For anyone else just now seeing this issue...the above link on cookie domain formatting got us up and running again.

[jennifer-shehane]

Since this issue hasn't had activity in a while, we'll close the issue until we can confirm this is still happening. Please comment if there is new information to provide concerning the original issue and we'd be happy to reopen.