Sending cookies with postman

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I read the manual of sending request with cookie with postman      As the packaged app runs in a sandbox separately from the browser  it   can not access cookies set inside the browser  This restriction can   also be overcome using the Interceptor extension  Postman routes all   requests through the Interceptor  which then uses the browser context   to send requests  Cookies set inside the browser are automatically   attached to your requests  Read the original blog post on Interceptor       Once the interceptor is enabled  you can also send cookies from   Postman  Just set the  Cookie  header  and the cookie will be sent   with the request  You can also get access to cookies that are   available when the response is returned  Check out out blog post for   more   So I downloaded the interceptor for google chrome  and it enable   Also  I add the following to postman  Cookie JSESSIONID daczcz36789  When I look at the network I notice that the Cookie is not sent    What I do wrong

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I used postman chrome extension until it became deprecated. Chrome extension also less usable and powerful then native postman application. So, it became not very convenient to use chrome extension. I have found next approach:

copy any request in chrome/any other browser as CURL request (image 1)
import to postman copied request (image 2)
save imported request in postman's list

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You can enable Interceptor in browser and in Postman separately  For send recieve cookies you should enable Interceptor in Postman  So if you enable interceptor only in browser - it will not work  Actually you don t need enable Interceptor in browser at all - if you don t want to flood your postman history with unnecessary requests

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Enable intercepter in this way Basically it is a chrome plug in  After installing the extention  you also need to make sure the extention is enabled from chrome side

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Based  RBT s answer above  I tried Postman native app and want to give a couple of additional details   In the latest postman desktop app  you can find the cookies option on the extreme right     You can see the cookies for your localhost  these cookies are linked with the cookies in your chrome browser  although the app is running natively   Also you can set the cookies for a particular domain too

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Chrome apps including Postman are being deprecated as mentioned here  Now the recommendation is to go for native apps which are not detached from the sandboxed environment of the browser   Quoting from the feature page      FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO THE NATIVE APPS       COOKIES  The native apps let you work with cookies directly   Unlike   the Chrome app  no separate extension  Interceptor  is needed       BUILT-IN PROXY  The native apps come with a built-in proxy that you   can use to capture network traffic        RESTRICTED HEADERS  The latest   version of the native apps let you send headers like Origin and   User-Agent   These are restricted in the Chrome app  DON T FOLLOW      REDIRECTS OPTION  This option exists in the native apps to prevent   requests that return a 300-series response from being automatically   redirected   Previously  users needed to use the Interceptor extension   to do this in the Chrome app         MENU BAR  The native apps are not   restricted by the Chrome standards for the menu bar        POSTMAN CONSOLE    The latest version of the native apps has a built-in console  which   allows you to view the network request details for API calls    So once you install the native Postman app from here you don t have to go looking for additional prerequisites like interceptor app just to check your cookies  I didn t have to change a single setting after installing the native postman app and all my cookies were visible in Cookies tab as shown below

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I was having issues getting this working  on OSX   I d followed the instructions provided by Postman  and the advice here  and cookies were still not being set   However  the post above saying  So if you enable interceptor only in browser - it will not work  alerted me to the fact that the interceptor could be enabled in the browser as well as in Postman itself  I thought I d try switching it on in the browser  to see if that helped  and it did  I then switched it off in the browser  and it still worked   So  if you are having issues getting it working  I d suggest trying switching it on in browser at least once  as  for me  this seemed to trigger it into life  I think you will still need it switch on in Postman too

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You should enable your interceptor extension man manually  it locate in the top-right of your postman window  There are several buttons  find the interceptor button and enable it  then you can send cookies after set Cookie field in your request headers

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Even after toggling it did not work  I closed and restarted the browser after adding the postman plugin  logged into the site to generate cookies afresh and then it worked for me

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