Cypress cy.visit does not send cookies with request

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I ran into a weird behaviour when running Cypress tests. It seems like cy.visit() fails to send cookies with the request.

First of all, yes, in cypress/supports/index.js I have set:

Cypress.Cookies.defaults({
  preserve: 'token'
})

And in my test I do the following:

it('test', () => {
  cy.logIn()
  cy.getCookie('token').then(console.log)
  cy.visit('/')
  // verify that the user is redirected to /home, which it isn't...
})

To log the user in, I run my custom logIn() command, which successfully logs the user in. Upon doing so, the application sets a cookie named token with the session token. Then I console.log the cookie successfully just before calling cy.visit(). However, my backend receives a request with no cookies and therefore does not perform a redirect as expected...

Has anyone run into something similar? Any ideas what may be happening?

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2 Answers

I struggled with the same problem. My cookie was set with the secure: true flag. After setting it to secure: false (Only in the Testing-Environment) the cookie was successfully sent to Cypress.

user_142071750

In my application I have been setting cookies with the following properties:

sameSite: 'none',
secure: true

@Develrockment's suggestion to set secure: false is probably correct, only in my case the application failed to set the tokens altogether, because there's a requirement for secure to be true if sameSite is none, which would`ve required me to conditionally change both values.

Instead, this was a good opportunity to review my sameSite approach and set its value by default to lax (which most browsers apparently use by default anyway), which solved my issue with Cypress tests.

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