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mgroen2
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8 years ago

Capture token in url and re-use it

Hi, I am writing tests for testing a web application. This web application uses accesstokens, to authenticate a user. After having logged into the webapplication, the url is displayed as follows: ...
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mgroen2
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tristaanogre wrote:

For namemapping, you shouldn't need to capture the tokens.  Simply replace the variable parts of the URL string in your namemapping with an asterisk (*) like http://localhost:4000/main?access=*&sessionid=*.

 

For that matter, you might be able to just replace everything after the ? with the asterisk.

Hi tristaanogre,

 

thanks for the tip.

Suppose I want to 'catch'  the values for the accesstoken, and sessionId, and save them in a variable. How to do that?