Unable to set cookies in Selenium Webdriver

Question

I\'m trying to add cookies to a link before I open it with webdriver but it keeps giving me this error:

org.openqa.selenium.UnableToSetCookieException

Answer 1

Adding cookies before navigating to the domain are called domain-less cookies which i believe is not possible.

I have not found a way to drop a cookie before the url, but I think below scenario might help you out-

1. Create a factory class to create webdriver instances
2. Before returning the webdriver instance, navigating to any page on the domain under test, and drop the cookie, then navigate browser back.
3. Your test can now begin, unaware that the navigation and cookie dropping has taken place