I'm trying to authenticate at a different domain as part of a Cypress test using cy.request. The authentication request needs to contain the value of the XSRF-TOKEN cookie as a header. This is easily solved when on the same baseURL as the authentication domain: visit the domain, read the cookie via cy.getCookie, then make the request. Since cypress does not allow visiting multiple domains in a single test a different workflow is needed.
My solution right now is to replace the initial cy.visit with a cy.reqeuest (this sets the cookie as verified by looking at the request headers of the second request). However, I can't figure out how to read this cookie before I make the second authentication request. cy.getCookies() is empty, and document.cookie is empty. The response of the cy.request only contains a "set-cookie" header the first time, and I can't figure out how to read the default headers of the cy.request since cy.intercept does not work with cy.request.
Sketch of my attempt (where c.value is null):
cy.request({url: "https://notbaseurl/login"}).then(res => {
cy.getCookie("XSRF-TOKEN").then(c => {
cy.request({url: "https://notbaseurl/auth", method: "POST", headers: {"X-XSRF-TOKEN": c.value}})
})
})
