cypress: Unable to login into salesforce 23 using session id

Current behavior

Until the salesforce 23 release which released around a month back, cypress was able to login into salesforce through soap request. However after salesforce 23 release, cypress is unable to log into salesforce which i believe is global issue as others too are facing it.

Below are the steps :

1. soap request payload as

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:urn="urn:partner.soap.sforce.com">  
     <soapenv:Body>  
        <urn:login>  
            <urn:username>username@example.com</urn:username>  
            <urn:password><<password>><<session_id>></urn:password>  
         </urn:login>  
     </soapenv:Body>  
</soapenv:Envelope> 

1. Then passing above payload as request to log into SF as below,

Cypress.Commands.add("loginAsTestUser", () => {
  cy.readFile("soapRequestBodyTestUser.xml").then(
    (requestBody) => {
      cy.request({
        method: "POST",
        url: "https://test.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/35.0",
        headers: {
          SOAPAction: "abc",
          ["Content-Type"]: "text/xml"
        },
        body: requestBody
      }).then((response) => {
        const sessionID = Cypress.$(response.body).find("sessionId").text();
        cy.visit("https://xxx--qa.sandbox.lightning.force.com/secur/frontdoor.jsp?sid="+sessionID);
      });
     }
  );
});

1. After calling above command in cypress runner, cypress is unable to move ahead of salesforce 23 logo

2. Also we could see below exception in cypress logs which was not there before salesforce 23 release,

Desired behavior

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Test code to reproduce

SOAP request payload as

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:urn="urn:partner.soap.sforce.com">  
   <soapenv:Body>  
  <urn:login>  
      <urn:username><<salesforce_username>></urn:username>  
      <urn:password><<password>><<session_id>></urn:password>  
      </urn:login>  
   </soapenv:Body>  
</soapenv:Envelope>  

Then passing above payload as request to log into SF as below,

Cypress.Commands.add("loginAsTestUser", () => {
  cy.readFile("soapRequestBodyTestUser.xml").then(
    (requestBody) => {
      cy.request({
        method: "POST",
        url: "https://test.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/35.0",
        headers: {
          SOAPAction: "abc",
          ["Content-Type"]: "text/xml"
        },
        body: requestBody
      }).then((response) => {
        const sessionID = Cypress.$(response.body).find("sessionId").text();
        cy.visit("https://xxx--qa.sandbox.lightning.force.com/secur/frontdoor.jsp?sid="+sessionID);
      });
     }
  );
});

1. After calling above command in cypress runner, cypress is unable to move ahead of salesforce 23 logo

2. Also we could see below exception in cypress logs which was not there before salesforce 23 release,

Cypress Version

10.8.0

Node version

v14.20.0

Operating System

Windows 10 Enterprise

Debug Logs

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Other

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