How to Save into Cookie?

[HelenAtGitHub]

We are working on Powershell for Sitecore and tried to save cookies. We have tried the samples in the links below but no luck. Could you give any suggestion?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5470474/powershell-httpwebrequest-get-method-cookiecontainer-problem https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/54ytye/using_cookies_with_invokerestmethod/

Regards, Helen

[michaellwest]

Hi @HelenAtGitHub could you provide more details about your use case in which cookies are needed? Are you simply trying to Invoke-WebRequest or Invoke-RestMethod with a cookie included?

[HelenAtGitHub]

Hi Michael, We plan to leverage Powershell for Sitecore module to select roles and assign them to users. I wonder if we can save the selected roles into a Cookie so that it will automatically select the same roles next time I open the report. By the way, I noticed that the Powershell report window has been loaded into an iframe. Will that be tricky to save into Cookie? Your suggestion would be much appreciated.

[michaellwest]

@HelenAtGitHub If you are wanting to manage security for users, I'm not clear on how the use of a Cookie would ever come into play.

There are a number of SPE commands to manage roles. Here are a few:

• Add-RoleMember
• Get-User

You can add users to a given role like the following:

Add-RoleMember -Identity sitecore\developer -Members "sitecore\michael","sitecore\adam","sitecore\mike"

Are you wanting to remotely add users to roles through the use of a web service call? Are you using a cookie to transmit user/role associations?

[HelenAtGitHub]

Hi Michael, Sorry to make you confused.
The report will list all the users who are not the members of certain roles. We have created a list of roles for sitecore admin to choose before loading the report . To save their time, we plan to store the selected roles into a Cookie so that they will see the same set of roles selected next time to run the report . Regards, Helen

[michaellwest]

I suppose a cookie could work, but perhaps an alternative approach using Sitecore would be to just save an item in the Sitecore tree and use Get-Item to retrieve it.

[HelenAtGitHub]

HI Michael, I want to pass credential to sitecore login page and save the cookie in the sitecore site, but I met error. It said there are no forms in the $login. Could you give me a sample of how to pass credential to sitecore login page? //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// `$login = Invoke-WebRequest -usebasicparsing -Uri 'http://{website}/sitecore/login' -SessionVariable sqlpass return $login return $login.Forms

$login.Forms[0].Fields["UserName"] = '{username}'

$login.Forms[0].Fields["Password"] = '{password}'

$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://{website}/sitecore/shell' -WebSession $sqlpass -Method POST -Body $login

[string]$BaseUri = "http://{website}/sitecore/shell/default.aspx?sc_lang=en" [string]$ContentType = "application/json" $cookie=new-object system.net.cookie $cookie.name = "testmycookie" $cookie.path = "/" $cookie.value = "testmycookie" $cookie.domain = "{website}" $cookie.expires = "01/10/2026 09:15 AM" $session=new-object microsoft.powershell.commands.webrequestsession $session.cookies.add($cookie)

$Headers=@{ }

$JSONResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -URI $BaseURI -Headers $Headers -ContentType $ContentType -Method Get -websession $session

If($JSONResponse) { Return $JSONResponse }` ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

[michaellwest]

@HelenAtGitHub Unfortunately the task you are trying to perform goes beyond the scope of the Sitecore PowerShell Extensions module.

You may however explore Invoke-JavaScript, a command included with SPE if you wish to execute JavaScript code from SPE. The Sitecore Slack Chat may also have some devs skilled in PowerShell that can help.

[AlexKasaku]

@HelenAtGitHub - You might be able to achieve what you want by using the user profile and storing selected values there. I've blogged a simple example - https://www.kasaku.co.uk/2017/07/19/sitecore-powershell-storing-in-user-profile/

[michaellwest]

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