Run results for: JWT Decode vs Standard cookie pull regex vs select value

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 144

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

cookie select a value

5.0M/s

Check for value in cookie

4.9M/s

No header decode

320K/s

longer string decode

299K/s

Atob decode

299K/s

jwt select a value

294K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ cookie select a value	4,990,124 Ops/sec
Check for value in cookie	4,936,822 Ops/sec
No header decode	319,942 Ops/sec
longer string decode	298,738 Ops/sec
Atob decode	298,704 Ops/sec
jwt select a value	293,589 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<!--your preparation HTML code goes here-->

Script Preparation code:

window.testCookie = "features=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiYWRtaW4iOnRydWUsImlhdCI6MTUxNjIzOTAyMn0.KMUFsIDTnFmyG3nMiGM6H9FNFUROf3wh7SmqJp-QV30; SameSite=None; Secure; monsterfeatures=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJuZXZlcl9nb25uYSI6eyJnaXZlX3lvdV91cCI6dHJ1ZSwibGV0X3lvdV9kb3duIjp0cnVlLCJydW5fYXJvdW5kIjp0cnVlLCJkZXNlcnRfeW91Ijp0cnVlLCJtYWtlX3lvdV9jcnkiOnRydWUsInNheV9nb29kYnllIjp0cnVlLCJ0ZWxsX2FfbGllIjp0cnVlLCJodXJ0X3lvdSI6dHJ1ZX19.6koygZP5DnSgnB0dz7o3hrdruZBSrb0LIHLJbO-rPKU; SameSite=None; Secure";

window.getCookie = (name) => {
    const value = `; ${window.testCookie}`;
    const parts = value.split(`; ${name}=`);
    if (parts.length === 2) return parts.pop().split(';').shift();
}

Tests:

Atob decode
var features = window.getCookie('features'); let decodedData = false; function jwtDecode(t) { let token = {}; token.raw = t; token.header = window.atob(t.split('.')[0]); token.payload = window.atob(t.split('.')[1]); return token; } try { decodedData = features === undefined ? false : jwtDecode('features'); // decode the string } catch (e) {} let result = decodedData ? decodedData.payload.includes('free:true') : false;
Check for value in cookie
var features = window.getCookie('features'); features.includes('eyJ');
No header decode
var features = window.getCookie('features'); let decodedData = false; function jwtDecode(t) { let token = {}; token.raw = t; token.payload = window.atob(t.split('.')[1]); return token; } try { decodedData = features === undefined ? false : jwtDecode('features'); // decode the string } catch (e) {} let result = decodedData ? decodedData.payload.includes('free:true') : false;
longer string decode
var features = window.getCookie('monsterfeatures'); let decodedData = false; function jwtDecode(t) { let token = {}; token.raw = t; token.header = window.atob(t.split('.')[0]); token.payload = window.atob(t.split('.')[1]); return token; } try { decodedData = features === undefined ? false : jwtDecode('features'); // decode the string } catch (e) {} let result = decodedData ? decodedData.payload.includes('free:true') : false;
jwt select a value
var features = window.getCookie('features'); let decodedData = false; function jwtDecode(t) { let token = {}; token.raw = t; token.header = window.atob(t.split('.')[0]); token.payload = window.atob(t.split('.')[1]); return token; } try { decodedData = features === undefined ? false : jwtDecode('features'); // decode the string } catch (e) {} let result = decodedData ? decodedData.payload[5] : false;
cookie select a value
var features = window.getCookie('features'); features[5];