How to set a cookie to a specific domain in selenium webdriver with python?
The documentation suggests navigating to a dummy url (such as a 404 page, or the path to an image) before setting the cookies. Then, set the cookies, then navigate to your main page.
Selenium Documentation - Cookies
... you need to be on the domain that the cookie will be valid for. If you are trying to preset cookies before you start interacting with a site ... an alternative is to find a smaller page on the site ... (http://example.com/some404page)
So, your code might look like this:
def open_url(self, url): """Open a URL using the driver's base URL""" dummy_url = '/404error' # Or this #dummy_url = '/path/to/an/image.jpg' # Navigate to a dummy url on the same domain. self.webdriver.get(self.store['base'] + dummy_url) # Proceed as before self.webdriver.add_cookie({'name' : 'tour.index', 'value' : 'complete', 'domain' : self.store['base'] + url}) self.webdriver.add_cookie({'name' : 'tour.map', 'value' : 'complete', 'domain' : self.store['base'] + url}) self.webdriver.get(self.store['base'] + url)