Delete cookies in Webdriver

Question

There is a .delete_all_visible_cookies method in Selenium. I was surprised to discover that .delete_all_cookies in Webdriver is a part of private API thus is not accessible through @driver instance.

It is a problem for IE since it does not start a clean browser on a new test run as FF.

Answer 1

From what I know you have to options:

• When creating the IE instance use capabilities argument:

  DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer(); caps.setCapability(CapabilityType.ForSeleniumServer.ENSURING_CLEAN_SESSION, true); WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(caps);

• Once initialized, you can use:

  driver.manage().deleteAllCookies()

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I was not able to solve this issue by means of Webdriver. Finally, what I do is simply delete the cookies from the command line before running the tests. The line is

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2