SAML Single Sign On Cannot Keep Session Cookie Jmeter - cookies

I successfully recorded a site that uses SAML Authentication Request and Single Sign On to Login. This site is using a proxy. So, I recorded it using a proxy.
When I played back the record, it successfully login but when I played back for the second times (I run after waiting for 5 seconds), it failed to login. If I checked, the difference is in the Cookie, however I already used HTTP Cookie Manager:
successfully login
failed login
If we can see the pictures above that the difference is the cookie.
So how to keep the session cookie?

JMeter automatically checks cookies integrity, as per HTTP Cookie Manager documentation:
JMeter checks that received cookies are valid for the URL. This means that cross-domain cookies are not stored. If you have bugged behaviour or want Cross-Domain cookies to be used, define the JMeter property "CookieManager.check.cookies=false".
There are 2 ways of "defining" the aforementioned property:
Add the next line to user.properties file (located in "bin" folder of your JMeter installation)
CookieManager.check.cookies=false
JMeter restart will be required to pick the property up
Override the property via -J command-line argument
jmeter -JCookieManager.check.cookies=false -n -t test.jmx -l result.jtl
More information: HTTP Cookie Manager Advanced Usage - A Guide

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How to extract Cookie Data in JMeter

I am new to JMeter and creating JMeter scripts on .Net Framework version 4.5.
I am facing a challenge or issue that how to extract/capture values like .ASPXAuth, AuthToken, Sesson ID generating on login into web application as Cookie Data but unable to use the same in the subsequent requests as there is no parameter available in Requests.
Actually, I need to extract the cookie data value from response header and to use it further in the subsequent requests. Please share the steps to do the same.
If you need to add cookies support to your JMeter script just add a HTTP Cookie Manager to your test plan.
The HTTP Cookie Manager automatically extracts the cookies from the Set-Cookie response header, checks their validity and adds them to the next request if domain and path of the HTTP Request samplers match the Cookie's domain and path.
So in the majority of cases it's sufficient to just add the HTTP Cookie Manager in order to get browser-like behaviour when it comes to cookies handling.
If you need to use the values of the cookies somewhere else, i.e. in a request parameter you can add the next line to user.properties file:
CookieManager.save.cookies=true
upon JMeter restart the incoming cookies values will be stored as JMeter Variables so you will be able to access the value of .ASPXAuth cookie as ${COOKIE_.ASPXAuth}, the value of AuthToken cookie as ${COOKIE_AuthToken}, etc.
More information: HTTP Cookie Manager Advanced Usage - A Guide

Jmeter .ASPXAUTH cookie handling

Action:
Login page enter a username and password, after that .ASPXAUTH cookie set and these are maintain all the rest of the http request
The above said cookie (.ASPXAUTH) not stored in cookie section.
Please refer the screen shot
Response header set a .ASPXAUTH cookie
Once we pass the valid credentials request header (get method) maintain the same cookie throughout the session
Recorded the above login in jmeter while running the .ASPXAUTH cookie not set.
Let me know how can I handle this?
Try using cookie manager for managing the cookie automatically. This will take care of your cookies and it works in most of the cases.You can also check the below URL on how to build a basic web test plan.
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/build-web-test-plan.html
Hope it helps.
Try the following steps:
Uncomment the next line in log4j2.xml file:
<Logger name="org.apache.jmeter.control" level="debug" />
This way you will have way more information regarding what's going on with the HTTP Cookie Manager under the hood
Play with "Cookie Policy" dropdown values, i.e. try netscape which is less restrictive than standard which is "too"-RFC 2109-compliant
Try adding the next line to user.properties file:
CookieManager.check.cookies=false
It will suppress JMeter's cookies validation logic.
More information just in case: HTTP Cookie Manager Advanced Usage - A Guide

How to generate a cookie and send it in a request in Jmeter

I am fairly new to Jmeter and hence having trouble figuring out the following:
I am testing a web service that needs a valid cookie to be sent in header. I have an endpoint url against which the userid and password validates. How do I validate the credentials against the url and extract the cookie for the user and send it in header for the request in Jmeter?
JMeter provides HTTP Cookie Manager which automatically handles cookies so in the majority of cases you don't need to do anything apart from adding the HTTP Cookie Manager to your Test Plan
However in some cases, i.e. in some CSRF implementations you need to add a request header holding previous response specific cookie value. In that case you should be acting like:
Add the next line to user.properties file (lives in JMeter's "bin" folder
CookieManager.save.cookies=true
Restart JMeter to pick the property up. The above setting "tells" JMeter to store cookie values as JMeter Variables prefixed by COOKIE_. So for example if you have cookie with the name of foo you will be able to access its value as ${COOKIE_foo}
Add HTTP Header Manager and set it up to send the desired header using ${COOKIE_foo} as a value (replace foo with your actual cookie name)
More detailed information: Using the HTTP Cookie Manager in JMeter

Session management in Apache JMeter

I would like to have a simple performance test which logs in multiple users, the sessions are created and do not expire until n minutes (where n is a parameter).
Is it possible to do this with JMeter? Do JMeter invalidate sessions at the end of the test?
In general, the expiration times of your cookies have to be set on the server side. The actual implementation will vary depending on your server side technology stack (see e.g. here for PHP's session docs), but it should be feasible, for example, to make a simple page that recognizes an "incoming" GET parameter value (from jMeter) for setting the cookie's expiration time when issuing the cookie.
On the client side (jMeter) the straight forward way for managing sessions is by using the CookieManager component. Each thread will have its own session cookie until the end of the test (or until the end of the iteration, if you configure the CookieManager accordingly).
If your test targets a typical web application that uses login forms for user logins, you could login each user (i.e. thread) e.g. by reading credentials from a username/password list in the form of a csv file (see CSV Data Set Config) and posting these credentials to the login form's action URL.
see httpd.conf (in Apache) for information on setting the duration of the session before timeout. This timeout is offset from the last request from a given session.

JMeter Cookie Manager - not storing cookies?

Please VOTE TO CLOSE instead of downvoting. I can't delete the question now that there are answers for it.
I've been playing with JMeter a few days now and I'm starting to get into the steeper part of the learning curve it seems. I've added a login request (i had to put it in a Loop Controller in the Thread Group). I then have a cookie Manager followed by two requests that are made by the browser (according to fiddler) after logging in. These next two requests require a cookie though and they don't seem to be working right now. I've set the Cookie Manager to "compatibility" for Cookie Policy. Then I look at the view results tree and I see that the two requests after login are failing and in the Request tab I see "[no cookies]".
Rather perplexing. Here's a screenshot.
i've modified my login request a bit:
however the next request still fails with a "not logged in" and "forbidden" message:
Not sure as i don't have full test plan but your login request seems to have failed because you get a redirect from http to https in tree result.
As you can see in tree you have 2 samples inside
Login one with http then one i http.
I suggest if you are a beginer to read this :
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/jmeter_proxy_step_by_step.pdf
It will help you build easily yoyr test plan.
I you don't succeed with proxy then I suggest you remove loop controller and test with only one iteration to see what's happening.
You can click on sampler in tree result and select request tab.
Check that your login request is using https, it's in scheme of http sampler.
If it's a redirect that you cannot anticipate, then disable follow redirect and with a regexp post processor:
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Regular_Expression_Extractor
extract the url from the redirect and submit it with login and password in next http sampler.
Regards
I had to learn a little bit more about the requests being made to the system in order for this to work. Instead of a call to www.server.com/login, i made a request to www.server.com/sessions.json and provided a json file with username and password. doint this set the cookie and the cookie manager took over. Then without modifying the other two requests, everything was honky dory.
Based on the images that you have posted, I found the error.
Cookie manager should be under the scope "Test plan". You have created a Cookie manager with the scope HTTP request.
Please leave the HTTP Cookie Manager with the standard settings. It should work.
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For more details refer to the below JMeter Documentation
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Cookie_Manager