Scan Behind Login

Why do you need Scan Behind Login?

When your website has an authentication form that allows the users to log in with their credentials, the regular cookie scanning feature isn't able to detect the authentication cookies like sign-up or sign-in forms, and other cookies associated with your account. In such a case, you can use our special cookie scanning feature named Scan Behind Login to detect all cookies even behind the login.

When you are subscribed to an Enterprise plan of Cookie Consent Management for your website property, you can get the Scan Behind Login feature on the Cookie Scan page.

Prerequisites: Login credentials

The following is the procedure to perform a scan behind login.

  1. In the menu, select the property.
  2. Select the property that you want to scan.
  3. In the Cookie Consent menu, click Cookie Category.

    The Cookie Category page appears.
  4. Click Cookie Scanning.
    The Scanning Details page appears.
  5. Click Scan Behind Login.
    The Scan Behind Login form appears.

How to Fill the Scan Behind Login Form

Follow the procedure to duly fill out each field of the form. 

  1. Website Login URL - Enter the login page URL.
  2. Redirect URL - Enter the webpage URL redirected after you log in successfully.
  3. Username/Email Type
    >Inspect the Username/Email field of the login page. See the example below.

    > Right-click the Username field and click Inspect.
    The development tool appears. Under the Elements tab, the corresponding field element gets highlighted.

    > In the Input element, copy any tag like name="...", type="...". 
    > Now go to the scan behind login form, in the Username/Email Type field, type "input[ ]", then insert the copied tag in between the square brackets, and replace the double quotes with the single quotes. See the example below.
  4. Username/Email - Enter the username or email-id.
  5. Password Type
    > Inspect the password field of the login page. See the example below.


    > In the Input element, copy any tag like name="...", type="...". 
    > Now go to the scan behind login form, in the Password Type field, type "input[ ]", then insert the copied tag in between the square brackets, and replace the double quotes with the single quotes. See the example below.
  6. Password - Enter the password.
  7. Button Type
    > Inspect the Log-in/Sign-in button of the login page and get any button element tag. See the example below.

    > Now go to the Scan Behind Login form, in the Button Type field, type "button[ ]", then insert the copied tag in between the square brackets, and replace the double quotes with the single quotes. See the example below.

    Another example is given below for an input type submit function.

    In the above case enter the Button Type in the below format
  8. After filling all the fields duly, click Validate.

Scan and Results

  1. Once you fill out the Scan Behind Login form and validate, then click Scan Now.
    The Scan Options appear. 
  2. If you want to scan up to 10 pages of your domain, select Quik Scan.
    Or if you want to scan more pages, select Deep Scan.

    Enter the number of pages to be scanned, and click Scan.
    The scan process starts. 
    When the scan is in progress, it shows the Scan Status as "Running" and the percentage of completion on the progress bar. Once the scan is completed, the status will show "Completed".
    After completion of the scan, the pie chart analytics of scanned details also appear on the window.
  3. Go to the Cookie Category page to view the scanned cookie details.
    For more details, see Cookie Categorization.