Selenium test to test cookie - cookies

Question

I want to write a selenium test that will check that when I log in to my application, and then re-open the browser, I'm automatically logged in using the saved cookie.
I thought that this may be possible to calling clearSession() between two #{selenium} blocks, but that seems to clear the cookie too. I've tested that this functionality works manually.
Any ideas how I'd test this.
For reference: Here's what I've tried.
#{fixture delete:'all', load:'../conf/User.yml' /}
#{selenium}
deleteAllVisibleCookies()
// Open the home page, and check that no error occurred
open('/')
waitForPageToLoad(1000)
assertNotTitle('Application error')
open('/login')
type('usernameOrEmail', 'marchaos')
type('password', 'password')
clickAndWait('css=input[type=submit]')
assertTextPresent('Welcome marchaos')
clearSession()
#{/selenium}
#{selenium}
// Open the home page, and check that no error occurred
open('/')
waitForPageToLoad(1000)
assertTextPresent('Welcome marchaos')
#{/selenium}
it fails at the last assertTextPresent()

Answer 1

I don't know about Selenium but you can do this in a functional test.
I do something like this:
Response loginResponse = FunctionalTest.GET("/user/login?login=test&password=test");
Map<String, Cookie> loginResponseCookies = loginResponse.cookies;
....
Request request = FunctionalTest.newRequest();
request.cookies = loginResponseCookies;
request.url = url;
return FunctionalTest.GET(request, url);