Retrieving Cookies

[Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan]

Hi

URL l = new URL("http://localhost/index.php");
URLConnection lc = l.openConnection();
Map headers = lc.getHeaderFields();

headers returns

{
       null=[HTTP/1.1 200 OK], 
       Date=[Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:42:10 GMT], 
       Content-Length=[323], 
       Keep-Alive=[timeout=5, max=100], 
       Set-Cookie=[c2=cookie2; expires=Thu, 13-Dec-2007 07:42:10 GMT, c1=cookie1; expires=Thu, 13-Dec-2007 07:42:10 GMT],
       Connection=[Keep-Alive],
       Content-Type=[text/html],
       Server=[Apache/2.2.6 (Win32) PHP/5.2.5], X-Powered-By=[PHP/5.2.5],
       Cache-Control=[no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0]
}

headers.get("Set-Cookie"); returns

[c2=cookie2; expires=Thu, 13-Dec-2007 07:45:11 GMT, c1=cookie1; expires=Thu, 13-Dec-2007 07:45:11 GMT]

But lc.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie"); returns

c2=cookie2; expires=Thu, 13-Dec-2007 07:24:08 GMT

What happened to the rest ? Why is returning just one (the first) cookie ?

Moreover some servers respond by sending two Set-Cookie headers to inidicate 2 cookies (header, value) pairs.

Is there a simpler way to retrieve cookies in JDK 1.6 ?

Thanks
[ December 12, 2007: Message edited by: Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

From the javadocs of the getHeaderField method:

If called on a connection that sets the same header multiple times with possibly different values, only the last value is returned.

Check out the getHeaderFields method, which returns all values for a given header name.