GuzzleHttp:how can I save cookies from a POST response and use it in the next POST?

Question

I'm using Guzzle to login my API site, and in the moment Im login with the right credentials, I get back a cookie with a RefreshToken to send it in the next call, here is my simple (and working well) code:

$client = new Client(array(
            'cookies' => true
        ));


        $response = $client->request('POST', 'http://myapi.com/login', [
            'timeout' => 30,
            'form_params' => [
                'email' => $request->get('email'),
                'password' => $request->get('password'),
            ]
        ]);

and I get back the right response with a cookie, I can see the cookie by using:

$newCookies = $response->getHeader('set-cookie');

now, I need to use this cookie in the next calls, and I know Guzzle can save the cookie for me and send it automatically (or not) in the next call using a "CookieJar" or "SessionCookieJar", I have tried to use it but I do not see the cookie in the 'jar', here is what I have done:

$cookieJar = new SessionCookieJar('SESSION_STORAGE', true);

        $client = new Client([
          'cookies' => $cookieJar
        ]);

        $response = $client->request ....

but, when I get the cookie back from the POST, I can see it only by using:

$newCookies = $response->getHeader('set-cookie');

and its not in the cookieJar, so it won't send it in the next call.. what am I missing here?

Thank you!

Delude

docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#cookies. You need to set the jar for the login request in order for it to collect the cookie – Paryavi

Thanks for your answer, I have tried to set it in the request and in the new client init nothing works (I've read the manual many times), can you please add some code? – Delude

Answer 1

As per the the documentation here, ['cookies' => true] indicates the use of a shared cookie jar for all requests, while ['cookies' => $jar] indicated the use of a specific cookie jar ($jar) for use with client's requests/ responses. So you would need to use either:

$client = new Client(array(
    'cookies' => true
));


$response = $client->request('POST', 'http://myapi.com/login', [
    'timeout' => 30,
    'form_params' => [
        'email' => $request->get('email'),
        'password' => $request->get('password'),
    ]
]);

// and using the same client

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://myapi.com/next-url');

// or elsewhere ...

$client = new Client(array(
    'cookies' => true
));

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://myapi.com/next-url');

or

$jar = new CookieJar;

$client = new Client(array(
    'cookies' => $jar
));


$response = $client->request('POST', 'http://myapi.com/login', [
    'timeout' => 30,
    'form_params' => [
        'email' => $request->get('email'),
        'password' => $request->get('password'),
    ]
]);

// and using the same client

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://myapi.com/next-url');

// or elsewhere ...

$client = new Client(array(
    'cookies' => $jar // the same $jar as above
));

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://myapi.com/another-url');

Bayadere

Answer 2

//post form params
$response = $client->post(route('login'), [
    'form_params' => [
        'login' => 'login',
        'password' => 'password',
    ],
    'headers' => [
        'Accept' => 'text/html,application/xhtml+xm…ml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
        'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0'
    ]
]);

//get cookie from header in response
$cookie = $response->getHeaderLine('Set-Cookie');

//get page with cookie
$client->get('/products', [
    'headers' => [
        'user-agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36',
        'accept' => 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9',
        'accept-encoding' => 'gzip, deflate, br',
        'accept-language' => 'ru',
        'cookie' => $cookie, //this cookie data
    ],
    'debug' => false
]);

Blaubok

Hi and thanks for the answer. It would be great if you could explain what your code does. It would help the community much more that way to learn from you! – Impassioned