Passing a cookie using a socket?

[Max Tomlinson]

Can I do this? Pass a cookie to an HTTP request via a socket?:

String cookieData = "Cookie: SOMECOOKIE=0909214809248jfd";
java.net.URL url =
new java.net.URL("http://localhost:9080/ADCWeb/ibm_security_logout");
java.net.URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(cookieData);
wr.flush();

thanks
Max