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Bug 25008 - Add delete cookie method
Summary: Add delete cookie method
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Browser Test/Tools WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebDriver (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Browser Testing and Tools WG
QA Contact: Browser Testing and Tools WG
URL: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-...
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Blocks: 20860
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Reported: 2014-03-11 21:02 UTC by Marc Fisher
Modified: 2014-07-13 20:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Marc Fisher 2014-03-11 21:02:22 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          David Burns :automatedtester

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-11 21:08:53 UTC
        

      






In addCookie[1] there is prose saying that if have a date in the past we should delete it. Do you think we need a new method on the remote end rather than just have the addCookie(date=1970-01-01)?



[1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/tip/webdriver-spec.html#methods-14

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Marc Fisher

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-13 22:46:48 UTC
        

      






The current Selenium WebDriver API has support for deleting cookies by name and for deleting all currently visible cookies. Deleting cookies by name could easily be accomplished with your proposed mechanism, so may not need to be carried over. However, it is often useful and convenient to be able to delete all visible cookies with a single call, so I would like to have this method.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Alexei Barantsev

        

        
        

        
          2014-03-18 06:02:26 UTC
        

      






We need a method to delete a cookie by name AND path too (because it is possible to set a cookie with the same name on a subpath).

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          David Burns :automatedtester

        

        
        

        
          2014-07-12 21:58:15 UTC
        

      






Since addCookie takes a cookie object, the cookie that needs deleting will need to have all the necessary keys filled with the date in the past.

Agreed in the F2F not to add a separate endpoint and method for this.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 5
        

        
          Andrey Botalov

        

        
        

        
          2014-07-13 07:45:24 UTC
        

      






It looks like the spec currently doesn't have endpoint to neither delete one cookie, nor to delete all cookies.

However, currently Webdriver does have endpoint to delete all cookies.

Is it intentional?

    


    


      



        
          Comment 6
        

        
          David Burns :automatedtester

        

        
        

        
          2014-07-13 20:06:19 UTC
        

      






(In reply to Andrey Botalov from comment #5)
> It looks like the spec currently doesn't have endpoint to neither delete one
> cookie, nor to delete all cookies.
> 
> However, currently Webdriver does have endpoint to delete all cookies.
> 
> Is it intentional?

Yes this is. The spec doesn't always agree with the current implementation at least for now. This will converge around Selenium 3