[Htmlunit-user] Re: newbie cookie question

[Chris P. <ch...@fo...>]

G'day,

htm...@li... wrote:
>>>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.

You are correct, see HttpMethodBase.addCookieRequestHeader()
<http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpMethodBase.java?view=markup>

"Cookie" headers are removed in preference for those set in the HttpState.

As a result, I use the following workaround:

// Visit the domain for which the cookie is to be set.
web_client.getPage(url);

// Get the state for the domain - N.B. getWebConnection() is volatile.
HttpState state = web_client.getWebConnection().getStateForUrl(url);

// Set cookies.
state.addCookies(new Cookie[]{ ... });


Additionally, for our server configuration I need to do the following *first* 
(need commons-httpclient nightly build - not yet in commons-httpclient-2.0-rc3):

// Cookies in one header.
HttpMethodParams.getDefaultParams().setParameter(
   HttpMethodParams.SINGLE_COOKIE_HEADER, new Boolean(true));

YMMV,
Chris.