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Managing Sessions and Cookies

Learn how bots maintain state across requests using sessions, cookies, and tokens to power authenticated, multi-step workflows.

HTTP Is Stateless

Each HTTP request is independent: the server forgets you between calls. To build multi-step workflows, a bot must carry state itself.

Cookies and sessions are how that state travels between requests.

What a Cookie Is

A cookie is a small key-value pair the server sets via a Set-Cookie header. The client returns it on every subsequent request, letting the server recognize the same client.

Set-Cookie: session_id=abc123; Path=/; HttpOnly

All lessons in this course

  1. Handling User Authentication
  2. Simulating Complex User Journeys
  3. Integrating with APIs
  4. Managing Sessions and Cookies
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