Question

I’m making a Java program that accesses a website, which depends on handing out cookies so I can be logged in. I’ve found out that using a CookieManager will allow my URLConnection to atleast gather these cookies, but then how do I have these cookies persist when the java program is closed?

I already have a class that manages serialization of a few variables, so how can I implement cookies into this serialization process? Java apparently doesn’t allow me to serialize CookieManagers and CookieStores by default.

Answer 1

You could extend CookieManager and make it implement serializable. Then use the extended CookieManager you just created.

For example:

public class NewCookieManager extends CookieManager implements Serializable{
  //Code here...
}