fix(testing): use cookie for testing authentication #3924
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Fixes #3834
Changes proposed in this pull request:
authenticatedAs
testing option makes use of an authorization header to authenticate the user, this only works on theapi
frontend, for forum or admin frontends we've always had to make a normal identification/password request to the login endpoint and use the generated cookie to run our tests. This isn't ideal.autheticatedAs
option to rely on a remember cookie by default. Which makes testing easier.Necessity
Confirmed