CookieManager.check.cookies=false not working - cookies

I jmeter.properties I set "CookieManager.check.cookies=false" but cross domain cookies still aren't working.
For example going this guide and using their demo site setting a cookie with a domain of "blazedemo.com" works, but if I change the domain to anything else it fails.

JMeter sends only cookies that match the domain of server in the request.
The property you've set impact the way JMeter read cookies not the way it writes them.
To check, emit a http request towards one host for which you created the cookie, you'll see it works.

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JMeter 5.4.1 Cookie Manager - User-Defined Cookie not added to request's cookies

Firstly, I did add the line CookieManager.check.cookies=false to jmeter.properties.
What I'm Trying to Do
I want to add a cookie to a request's existing cookies.
For example, I see the request has [edited]:
Cookie Data:
c1=sfasfsfsfsfs; c2=erqwerqwrr; c3=poiuopiupoi
Expected Results
I would like it to have:
Cookie Data:
c1=sfasfsfsfsfs; c2=erqwerqwrr; c3=poiuopiupoi; partner=favicon.ico
Here is what I tried:
BASE_URL_2 is a variable defined in the form qa.company.com.
Actual Results
Whatever I have tried so far has not made any change in the cookies.
What else shall I try?
Underlying Motivation
Recorded a Web session and played it back.
Added a RegEx Extractor to pull out a token and then added it to subsequent requests. That helped.
However, certain requests failed with an custom application exception Security violation, please refresh.
Probably session login state is not being passed, so the website thinks the call is "stale".
I've seen this on the GUI when the session expires and you try to click a button on the site.
On comparing the cookies seem in JMeter with what I saw in the Chrome Debugger, it was clear that there were more cookies in the running application than what I had in JMeter.
Are you sure you're using HTTPS protocol because if you have secure flag and using HTTP protocol - the cookie will not be sent.
Also remove = from partner= otherwise you will end up with partner==favicon.ico
Demo:
More information:
Using HTTP cookies
HTTP Cookie Manager Advanced Usage - A Guide

Setting a cookie on an external domain through an image, doesn't seem to work

I have mysite.com and mysite.nl.
I want to build single sign-on, someone signing in on .com should be signed in in .nl.
I do this by putting an image (1 pixel transparent PNG image) on the .nl domain which sends back a cookie in the response.
In my firefox dev tools, I see 'response cookie' and it's set. It looks like this:
I have made sure the domain is set to mysite.nl
But somehow, when I then navigate to mysite.nl I don't see the cookie set. Am I missing something? I tried disabling tracker blocking, but to no avail.
Google is doing it this way as well right? Ie., log in in Google and you're logged in in Youtube.
If the browser makes a request to xyz.mysite.com, it has to drop the domain cookie for mysite.nl. This is due to the browser security model. If you want to achieve Single Sign On between xyz.mysite.com and xyz.mysite.nl you need some technology to 'transfer' the session token between the two domains. Either you use a standards-backed technology like SAML or OIDC or you use a proprietary mechanism. If you carefully look at the HTTP response, you will see two Set-Cookie HTTP response headers, one has domain property set to mysite.com, one has set domain property to mysite.nl.

browser not sending cookie to server from local host while sending from another origin

I have an issue i don't understand.
I make an api call from a.b.com to a.b.com
In devtools I can see the request and I can see it contain cookie as expected.
Then I make the same api call from my local host to a.b.com and the cookie is not present.
As per my knowledge and online documentation search, cookie should be sent to server if it matches all its rules (domain, path, expires, etc.)
If so why the request is different for each origin?
We use CORS calls all the time.
In addition just to verify, I disabled Chrome 3rd party cookie protection.
Here is an image to provide more details:
Don't be shy to point me to good documentation on this matter :)
Due to security reasons you cannot share cookies between two different domains. You cannot exchange cookies between localhost and a.b.com.

Setting cookies for subdomain

i'm making a web app in a restful way.
For my client side i'm using angularJs, the same is hosted at - lets say -
https://domain.com
My backend is built on spring boot and i call all the resources from a subdomain - lets say -
https://xyz.domain.com
Now when a user logs in , the backend sends an http only cookie to the client.
I can see the cookie in response header but its not being set in the browsers cookie.
After a bit of research, i have tried sending cookie with domain = .domain.com
but that didnt work either.
Is there a way i can set cookie coming from xyz.domain.com for my client side at domain.com
(Note - i'm not using www.domain.com )
Any help or clue would be great.
Thank you for going through my question.
The problem you're describing is related to cross domain cookie policies. I don't know your exact use-case, but looking at CORS and P3P headers should give you a good start. As an option, you can try setting your cookie manually via Javascript.
Making CORS working isn't enough, you also need to enable withCredentials in angular.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/withCredentials
Example:
angular.module('example', []).config(function ($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.defaults.withCredentials = true;
});

Cookie Manager of Apache JMeter doesn't add the cookie to POST request

I build up very simple test plan.
Login: POST, a session cookie is returned.
Get the state: GET, a user state is returned.
Create a resource: POST, JSON body is supplied for the resource.
So my 'Test Plan' looks like:
Test Plan
Thread Group
HTTP Request Defaults
HTTP Cookie Manager
Login (HTTP Request Sampler: POST)
Get State (HTTP Request Sampler: GET)
Create Resource (HTTP Request Sampler: POST)
The cookie generated by 'Login' is added to 'Get State' correctly.
But 'Create Resource' has NO cookie. I changed their order but it doesn't help.
I used the default options firstly and changed some options but it also doesn't help.
Is it a bug of JMeter? or just POST http request is not able to have cookie?
Please give me any advice.
[SOLVED]
I noticed that it is related to the path, not the method.
You'd like to look at the domain of the cookie as well as the path.
I mean, the path and the domain of a cookie could be defined in the server side through Set-Cookie header.
Another solution is to set CookieManager.check.cookies=false in jmeter.properties usually sitting besides the jmeter startup script in bin.
JMeter for some reasons thinks that you can't set the path=/something in a cookie if you are on http:/somesite/somethingelse. That is the path has to match the path your currently on.
I've never seen a browser enforce this limitation if it actually exists. I've seen and written several sites that use this technique to set a secure cookie and then forward someone say to /admin.
I wish this option was at least in the GUI so I didn't have to change the properties file. I think BlazeMeter is smart enough to turn off checking where flood.io is not. If it were up to me I'd just remove the code that checks this entirely. Why make the load tester any harder then it needs to be.
I had this turned on in my Spring Boot server which was causing the issue with CookieManager in jMeter:
server.servlet.session.cookie.secure=true
Removing this made the cookies flow ! Of course this is for localhost. For Production you may need this turned on.