How can I programmatically create an auth session for kinetic on a browser and then get in and use kinetic without having to manually enter the credentials?
“Why on earth would you want to do that you lunatic?” - You presumably
Well…
I’m trying to handle the sign in logic for the web version of kinetic via the REST Api, to save from having to type in the details.
Specific use of this is automated testing in Browserstack, where at the moment, the first thing in every test is to navigate to the login page, wait for the inputs, type in the user credentials, click login and wait for the page to finish loading, redirect to the actual page to be tested, which is adding about 10s to the beginning of each of my tests.
Naturally, I am creating an entirely new browser for each test, so the cookies are completely cleared meaning the session is destroyed after every test, so I cannot just do the login once, and then do a bunch of tests.
As such, I am trying to emulate the calls made when kinetic signs in
I am then setting the cookies manually, specifically the two cookies that I can find at least
However, it still doesn’t then sign in, it gives the following warning and redirects to the login page
(Warning message: Connection failed, please review the username and password and try again)
However, the cookies are set correctly and although I seemingly don’t do anything with it, I am getting a valid GUID back for the session ID.
Cookies:
NAME: homepage__erp.token.auth
VALUE: URL ENCODED JSON containing the token returned by /TokenResource, the userName, an EMPTY password, and some expiry details.
DOMAIN: Correct domain WITHOUT “HTTPS://”
PATH: /KineticTest/Apps/Erp/Home
SAMESITE: Strict
Has anyone ever tried to get this to work before? Is there something I’m missing here?
Unlike .NET, in web dev, there are already many good options available.