Allow users to log into password-protected areas of sites about pa11y HOT 6 CLOSED

I'm not sure as to how PhantomJS handles sessions, but would it be possible to add a list (array) of JS filenames to the pa11y config file which can then be injected into the page before running the HTML_CodeSniffer?

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That's the kind of thing I was thinking yeah, there are a few unknowns though:

• What would happen if the page/URL changes (e.g. if you submit a login form)?
• Do the JS files need to be served through a web-server, or can we inject them into the Phantom browser from the file system?
• Is there a simpler way to solve this problem (e.g. inject a cookie into the page)

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Picking at that last point, wget uses a --cookie-jar flag to pass along a textual file in the format originally used by Netscape's cookie.txt file. Maybe a flag like that would work? Or, the config file could hold an array of JSON object literals that would represent cookies which could be passed along one by one to phantom.addCookie? The latter seems doable.

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I like the idea of a JSON object in the config file. It'd be good to keep as much of the config as possible in the JSON

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How does this look for the config file?

{
    'cookies': [
        {
            'name': 'cookie-name',
            'value': 'cookie-value',
            'domain': 'localhost',
        },
        {
            'name': 'a-different-cookie-name',
            'value': 'cookie-value',
            'domain': 'localhost',
        }
    ]
}

These cookies could then be injected into the browser before loading the page.

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@whymarrh that looks great!

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