The cookies in the cookie cache expire after a fairly short amount of time, an hour I believe. So this would be fixed in any case, in an hour after your first attempt.
The web UI connector contributions do not have facility for connector-added buttons. The cookie management table is created and managed by the web connector. I do not see an easy way around these restrictions. Karl On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:34 PM <julien.massi...@francelabs.com> wrote: > Hi Karl, > > > > I noticed that the cookies used by the web connector are stored both into > memory and in the cookiedata table of the manifold database. The cookiedata > table still keeps cookies of a connector even if this one is removed from > MCF admin UI. This can lead to problematic behaviors. Let me explain: > > > > I have configured a login sequence to cover the following use case: > > > > URL=test.com > > Step1 = form a (set cookie) > > Step2 = redirect b (set cookie) > > Step3 = redirect c (set cookie) > > > > The 3 different cookies are required to be able to crawl the wanted website > but I did a mistake in the configuration and the login sequence was > interrupted at step 2. So the connector retrieved 2 cookies then ended up > in > an infinite loop. I did a correction on the configuration but then, when I > have restarted the job, it did not work. By checking the logs I noticed > that > the job was using the 2 retrieved cookies at Step1, and the problem was > that > with the cookies, the form have a different behavior and does not redirect > to 'b' (Step2) but returns a 200 OK response which ends prematurely the > login sequence. As a consequence, the third required cookie was never > retrieved. > > The solution was simple, I needed to remove the cookies so that the job > restarts with an empty cookie cache for the website. Indeed it worked, but > to be able to do that I had to: > > 1. remove the cookies from the cookiedata table > 2. reboot the mcf agent so that its in memory cache was emptied. > > > > Without those manips, the job was always using the cookies (even a job + > connector delete then recreation did not work) > > > > Would it be possible to create a button in the connector's view to remove > the cookies from the cookiedata table + the in memory cache in order to > avoid such manips ? > > > > Julien > > > >
