I’m working with an API where I’m trying to grab one of the cookies from the response of a POST request.
Coming from R - with the httr package, I can do something like this because cookies is a field in the response, much like status code, headers, etc:
response <- POST(url,
add_headers(.headers = c("Content-Type" = "application/json;charset=UTF-8")),
body = request_body)
token <-
response |>
pluck("cookies") |>
filter(name == "cookie_name") |>
pull(cookie_value)
In HTTP.jl, the only things I see in the documentation are version, status, headers, body, and request. Is there something like HTTP.response.cookies available that I’m missing?
My uninformed, hacky solution is to get the cookie from the header like this, but my emphasis is on hacky:
function get_cookie(resp::HTTP.Messages.Response; cookie_name::String)
cookie_headers = filter(headers -> headers[1] == "Set-Cookie", resp.headers)
# get the index where the cookie is
idx = map(1:length(cookie_headers)) do x
cookie_headers[x][2] |>
cookie_values -> occursin(cookie_name, cookie_values)
end
# get the cookie values
cookie_values = map(1:length(cookie_headers)) do x
cookie_headers[x][2]
end
# index into the values to extract the cookie in question
# (I already know the length of the token in question...)
cookie_values[idx][1][10:559]
end
get_cookie(response, cookie_name = "name_of_the_cookie")
#> "a string containing the token in question"
