Using default address 127.0.0.1 leads to cookies problems when using Capybara.server_host

[woto]

Hi, sorry for bad English. Not sure that this is a bug, in my project i'm using

Capybara.server_port = 3000
Capybara.server_host = 'localhost'

next i wanted to set cookie

page.driver.set_cookie "auth_token", "8e9beU3E20YWHmF1RBSwFa"

i found that this doesn't work.
Next I found the problem. Because of different hosts.

poltergeist-c3d41c7652c4/lib/capybara/poltergeist/driver.rb @ line 218 Capybara::Poltergeist::Driver#set_cookie:

Capybara.app_host || "127.0.0.1"

After changing server_host from 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1' all works fine.

[yaauie]

It looks like Capybara supports both server_host and app_host attributes, and the documentation is nor clear about the difference between the two.

Can you try setting both to localhost to see if it behaves as you expect?

[woto]

Hi, sorry for late.

I tried

Capybara.app_host = "http://localhost:3000"
Capybara.always_include_port = true
Capybara.default_host = "http://localhost:3000"
#Capybara.default_host
Capybara.server_port = 3000
Capybara.server_host = "localhost"

in different combinations, but didn't found solution. I'll try later when will have some more free time.

[route]

I suppose it's related to #217

[Jamedjo]

I'm having similar issues in that using app_host or default_host prevents cookies from being set/retrieved.

Resetting them to 127.0.0.1 before the test works:

Capybara.default_host = 'http://127.0.0.1'
Capybara.app_host = 'http://127.0.0.1'
page.driver.set_cookie('my_cookie_name', 'cookiemonster', domain: '127.0.0.1')

Where as setting a subdomain doesn't work:

Capybara.default_host = 'http://ourdomain.com'
Capybara.app_host = 'http://ourdomain.com'
page.driver.set_cookie('my_cookie_name', 'cookiemonster', domain: 'ourdomain.com')

[twalpole]

This seems to be a combination of 2 issues - one is #217 which is a phantomjs issue with cookie setting and not yet sure whether we can do anything about that. The second is that the host you're visiting and the host you're setting cookies for have to match. Capybara.server_host is the ip/host that capybara attempts to bind the server to when it's running an app, Capybara.app_host is the url that gets prepended to paths passed to visit and is mainly designed for use when testing external sites. Capybara.default_host is used by the racktest driver (but will be overridden by app_host if set). I'm closing this since the one part of this issue is a configuration problem and not an issue in poltergeist and the other is a duplicate of issue #217