How to send a cookie in HTTP post

[Archana Annamaneni]

Hi ,

I have to send a cookie through an http post from a java program .

For some other reasons I am using a HttpsUrlConnection to make a conenction with the server.
How can I send the cookie?

Thanks

[Sharad Agarwal]

It will be useful to look at the format for a URL request:

Host: <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.google.com</a>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: <a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/</a>
Cookie: BunchOfStuffHere

You will need to use the HttpsUrlConnection.setRequestProperty() method to set the Cookie.

(If using HttpsUrlConnection is not a mandate, please consider using Apache HttpClient).
[ July 15, 2005: Message edited by: Sharad Agarwal ]

[kotesh rao]

Hi,

StringBuffer sb1 = new StringBuffer();

sb1.append(<Name> );
sb1.append("=");
sb1.append(< value >+ ";");

one more

sb1.append(<Name> );
sb1.append("=");
sb1.append(< value >+ ";");

specify name and value for cookies..if u have more just repeat above 3 lines.

then add cookies to url header.

header.append("Cookie: ");
header.append(sb1.toString());

//write header information.
outputStream.writeBytes(header.toString());


hope this will help u.