How to make a POST request inside a Mink session?

@in4s Based on the following discussion, the gist is-

The PHP super global variable $_SESSION will be reset after each Scenario. You can call a login in each Sceanrio to minimize your problem.

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30126083/dealing-with-session-and-behat-mink-selenium

I saw that solution but is there any way to make it with the POST request? In my opinion, a single login POST request will work much faster than that.

I found the partial answer to my question: https://github.com/minkphp/Mink/issues/626#issuecomment-66770090 But I am sure it is still can be done with PHP, just needed to link the PHP post request to the same session of Mink.

There is also another type of login solution (without post request): https://stackoverflow.com/a/27354060/12580089

For example, it is possible to save a session id cookie from the first authorization and use it on other feature scenarios. Of course, there are some design minuses, and it, probably won't work this way with laravel. But for some vanilla PHP projects for testing purposes, it's possible to use this approach. It can speeds up tests execution for 1 second for each scenario with the admin area. If it is 300 tests, it saves 5 minutes of each run.