Cookies not loaded for website sign-in

[vijay-cohere]

When I run SteP with this code on my environment, I'm seeing significantly worse performance than reported in the paper. I was digging into this and I see sign-in pages in the environment state that I don't see when running the "run.py" script in WebArena, e.g.:

[1] RootWebArea 'Sign in · GitLab' focused: True
        [24] img 'GitLab Community Edition'
        [25] heading 'GitLab Community Edition'
        [11] tabpanel ''
                [13] Section '' live: assertive atomic: False relevant: additions text
                        [50] StaticText 'Username or email'
                        [15] textbox 'Username or email' focused: True required: True
                        [56] StaticText 'Password'
                        [54] textbox 'Password' required: True
                        [64] checkbox 'Remember me' checked: false
                        [66] link 'Forgot your password?'
                        [62] button 'Sign in'
        [29] StaticText "Don't have an account yet? "
        [30] link 'Register now'
        [19] separator '' orientation: horizontal
        [31] link 'Explore'
        [33] link 'Help'
        [35] link 'About GitLab'
        [37] link 'Community forum'

This looks like the Gitlab sign-in page. In the default WebArena runner script, you never see this, because cookies are loaded from file to avoid sign-in.

I think the WebArena environment in this repo is broken because it's missing this cookie loading.

[psodhi-asapp]

WebArena websites require authentication before being used. The README in Webarena specifies how to setup authentication so you end up with an .auth folder with cookies with login information. I have copied over the instruction below

mkdir -p ./.auth
python browser_env/auto_login.py

Once you have the .auth folder, copy it over to webagents-step/ root directory. You should then be signed in to all the websites.

(I have the updated the README with these instructions)