Set cookies for your performance tests

Cookies allow website owners to store a piece of information on their visitors browser. Setting up cookies for your web performance tests may be useful:

• to determine user's profile (e.g.: favorite store)
• to enforce the version to test while using an A/B testing service
• to simulate a session via a test login
• etc.

Once stored on the browser, the cookie is sent within the next HTTP requests to the server. Nevertheless, it's not necessary sent within all requests. You can specify a specific domain and path on which it's applied.

To use the related Dareboost feature, open the Cookies tab within our advanced settings:

4 fields are available to set up your cookie:

• it's name (required)
• it's value (optional)
• the applying domain (optional, the page’s domain will be used by default)
  Example: dareboost.com
• the applying path (optional, default value : "/")
  Example: /en

On the screenshot example displayed above, the cookieName=cookieValue cookie will be sent via a Cookie HTTP header, for all requests to dareboost.com with a path starting with /en.

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For a cookie to be sent on a domain as well as on its sub-domains, it's requiered to add a point . as a prefix. For exemple, having a cookie with .domain.com as a Domain value will allow to send the cookie for requests on www.domain.com, domain.com or again on cdn.domain.com