Question

What is the proper way to send a ‘full’ cookie across a URLConnection?

I’ve been using:

URL url = new URL(page);  
URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection(); 

urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", myCookie); 

urlConn.setUseCaches(true); 

urlConn.connect();

The myCookie value is
testCookie=d1lEZk9rSHd3WnpBd2JkWGRhN1RYdz09OkEwQ21pSFJVZzBpVDhhUENaK3ZPV2c9PQ

Is there a way to send the Path,Domain, and Expires with it? Do you need to encode the value in some way?

Answer 1

Well, if you are only setting a cookie I guess you could simply do like:

urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "user=mary17; domain=airtravelbargains.com; path=/autos");

If you’re setting more than one cookie than you could probably use the addRequestProperty method instead.

For the expires attribute make sure to use the format: Weekday, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT.

The only legal time zone is GMT, and the separators between the elements of the date must be
dashes.