How does Postman retrieve cookies from the server? - cookies

I am implementing consuming a REST API. My development environment is not C#, cURL, PHP, or any other commonly-used environment. I am using a Postman collection furnished by the API's developers as a base for my implementation. Issuing the request works:
Postman screen capture
Automatically added cookies
When I disable the Cookie Jar, the request no longer works in Postman.
I believe that what I need to do is to imitate whatever Postman is doing to retrieve those cookies and include them in the header of my request. How is Postman retrieving those server-side cookies?

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To save this (or anything else, really) in a cookie, you need to either respond to a browser request with Set-Cookie HTTP header, see:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie
or to set it with client-side JavaScript, see:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/cookie
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what framework do you use?
how your application is accessed?
how do you want to use that cookie?
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