Re: [Htmlunit-user] newbie cookie question

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Chris Pudney wrote:
> I would like a simple example of how to set a cookie in the WebClient 
> request header.  I've tried the obvious:
> 
> web_client.addRequestHeader("Cookie", COOKIE);
> page = (HtmlPage) web_client.getPage("http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv");

I would have expected that to work but perhaps common-httpclient is 
stripping that header out.

There is no explicit way to set cookies in HtmlUnit at present.  There 
is aleady a feature request to expose the underlying instance of 
common-httpclient which would solve this (and several other) problems. 
Unfortunately, this isn't a simple change and I haven't had time to work 
on it.

If anyone else want's to tackle the issue of exposing 
commons-httpclient, I can explain what makes it a complex problem and 
what I think is the best solution.

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