How do i pick specific cookies? - paw-app

Question

How can I select specific cookies from a response?
The response I'm getting has 6 Set-Cookie rows, but I just need some of them for my next post.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:49:29 GMT
cache-control: no-cache="set-cookie, set-cookie2"
expires: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID-AUTH=0000Q77IB2vtdMjRmqnsja8ciUE:18j7lq1fl;Secure; Path=/
Set-Cookie: PD_STATEFUL_e0255922-d1d6-11e3-9144-005056bc2960=%2Fnauth2;Secure; Path=/
Set-Cookie: PD-SESSION-ID=1_4_0_Mip9xQRE1J80beniD1eh-7Le1L+X8uwfIRVUZdKvJUKO2OIB;Secure; Path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: iampsc1110=rd520o00000000000000000000ffff0a101fa3o1110;secure; path=/
Set-Cookie: TSaee27a=e4d514b3ab1503842b07e9b4d4ee0db30a6a3a54c730b09754f85edbe54ca44a641b9f7bf3fdf509ca7d6de2ed2d4e69c8c3db3f6623dd16fb85456b4ced6f5a34c171e7a460affd34c171e70025563134c171e75f534b1f34c171e7; Path=/

Answer 1

You're right, there is no proper way to do this yet. Here are 2 workarounds:
Manually, you can go and delete the cookies you don't want. In the Requests menu, pick Cookies then Show Cookies. Use the search box to find the cookies you'd like to get rid of.
A more complex solution, but that exactly fits your need, I think. Use a Custom dynamic value (right click on the field, and pick Extensions > Custom), instead, and use the following JavaScript code snippet:
function evaluate(context){
// Set here the cookies you'd like to return
var wantedCookies = ["datr", "reg_fb_ref"];
var regex = /^(\w+)\=([^;\s]+)/g;
// Request
// Uses here the current request, you can use getRequestByName("name of the request") instead
var request = context.getCurrentRequest();
// Get response cookies
var cookies = request.getLastExchange().getResponseHeaderByName("Set-Cookie").split(", ");
var filteredCookies = [];
for (var i in cookies) {
var cookie = cookies[i];
var match = regex.exec(cookie);
if (match && wantedCookies.indexOf(match[1]) >= 0) {
filteredCookies.push(match[0]);
}
}
return filteredCookies.join(",");
};
That basically parses manually the response cookies, and returns the ones you need.