Playwright: Chrome headless (persistent) doesn't save/load cookies on windows

[JoelEinbinder]

On Windows, headless chrome can't read cookies from a userdatadir. It is specific to cookies, localStorage works. The Default\Cookies file exists, and is a valid SQLite table, but it has no rows. Launching with headful, I can see the cookie in the SQLite file, but launching headless chrome afterwards clears the file again, and doesn't read the cookie.

Possibly related to, Puppeteer/Puppeteer#4111, but where that was flaky, this is consistently broken.

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[meotimdihia]

Confirmed, my problem is the same. Take hours to figure this because it works fine on my Ubuntu machine.

[emko]

i though i was going crazy, i am on win10 same problem headless true cookies don't get restored with it false it works fine, is there a workaround?

[sameh81]

We need a solution for this issue please

[kajojify]

Hello guys. Still face it on Version 86.0.4240.75 (Official Build) (64-bit) for Windows 10.

[ctataryn]

Confirmed, my problem is the same. Take hours to figure this because it works fine on my Ubuntu machine.

@meotimdihia maybe you just got lucky on Ubuntu with an older version of Chromium installed? I cannot get cookies from my —user-data-dir on either Windows or Ubuntu to work when in headless mode.

[JackPoteYes]

Same issue on headless Ubuntu Bionic, but with Webkit.
The browser context has no cookie, won't set them after receiving a Set-Cookie header response, and I can't set them manually neither.