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Help parsing a string down to what I need it to be.

RJ McCollam asked in Ruby

I am working on an API integration and I have to authenticate via one call, take cookie values from the response, and use them in a new call. Using HTTParty I can make all the calls I need to, but my issue comes with parsing the set-cookie response I get from my first call into what it needs to be for my second call.

Here is what I get from my first call for set-cookie:

ASP.NET_SessionId=tyq0iz2apxli30wih0xdf0jt; path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax, UserBranch=1; path=/, Locale=Culture=en-US&TimeZone=GMTM0700S; expires=Thu, 22-Apr-2021 14:35:47 GMT; path=/, CompanyID=Sandbox; expires=Thu, 22-Apr-2021 14:35:47 GMT; path=/, .ASPXAUTH=1869AD7D19D10655EBBD673C06E9EE641156F95DAA9ADFCD938F3836F916AAEA90CD8FCE23783C55E82F6E66C1A9DAD4B743B33AC033F52954D04526B050C7C77AEF6209A05238B2C79B61391F0E5DC14C7EC4CEFDBDD15DE4234E2DF2ED20B09011C817A9D61E3CFDB1E2787B6C9BDA825173FF2B7BCB7D35AC67615412BD13547DA958CFF05F62AADB94BE480B0E6A1A966F36; path=/; HttpOnly, ASP.NET_SessionId=tyq0iz2apxli30wih0xdf0jt; path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax, UserBranch=1; path=/, Locale=Culture=en-US&TimeZone=GMTM0700S; expires=Thu, 22-Apr-2021 14:35:47 GMT; path=/, CompanyID=Sandbox; expires=Thu, 22-Apr-2021 14:35:47 GMT; path=/, .ASPXAUTH=1869AD7D19D10655EBBD673C06E9EE641156F95DAA9ADFCD938F3836F916AAEA90CD8FCE23783C55E82F6E66C1A9DAD4B743B33AC033F52954D04526B050C7C77AEF6209A05238B2C79B61391F0E5DC14C7EC4CEFDBDD15DE4234E2DF2ED20B09011C817A9D61E3CFDB1E2787B6C9BDA825173FF2B7BCB7D35AC67615412BD13547DA958CFF05F62AADB94BE480B0E6A1A966F36; path=/; HttpOnly, requestid=693977198F02788111EBA11C82CB901C; path=/, requeststat=+st:92+sc:~/entity/auth/login+start:637544397471740106+tg:; path=/

Here is what I need it to be in order to successfully make my second call:

.ASPXAUTH=1869AD7D19D10655EBBD673C06E9EE641156F95DAA9ADFCD938F3836F916AAEA90CD8FCE23783C55E82F6E66C1A9DAD4B743B33AC033F52954D04526B050C7C77AEF6209A05238B2C79B61391F0E5DC14C7EC4CEFDBDD15DE4234E2DF2ED20B09011C817A9D61E3CFDB1E2787B6C9BDA825173FF2B7BCB7D35AC67615412BD13547DA958CFF05F62AADB94BE480B0E6A1A966F36; ASP.NET_SessionId=tyq0iz2apxli30wih0xdf0jt; CompanyID=Sandbox; Locale=Culture=en-US&TimeZone=GMTM0700S; UserBranch=1; requestid=693977198F02788111EBA11C82CB901C; requeststat=+st:92+sc:~/entity/auth/login+start:637544397471740106+tg:;

I have two questions:

  1. What is an efficient way to remove the items I do not need. Just multiple gsubs?
  2. What can I do about duplicate values in the response I get from the first call? For instance I get multiple .ASPXAUTH entities that are duplicates of each other. How do I only strip one of them out?

Of course everything works nice and neat in Postman, but trying to implement it I am running into these issues.

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Does this work? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54979195/passing-cookies-with-httparty

get_response = HTTParty.get(url)

cookie_hash = HTTParty::CookieHash.new
get_response.get_fields('Set-Cookie').each { |c| cookie_hash.add_cookies(c) }

response = HTTParty.post("http://localhost:3000/users/other_urls", {headers: {'Cookie' => cookie_hash.to_cookie_string }} )
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It does, thank you Chris. Need to spend more time working through the code to see available options like this since they aren't documented.

Appreciate the help.

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