Java Coding Problems

260. Handling cookies

By default, JDK 11's HTTP Client supports cookies, but there are instances where built-in support is disabled. We can enable it as follows:

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newBuilder()  .cookieHandler(new CookieManager())  .build();

So, the HTTP Client API allows us to set a cookie handler using the HttpClient.Builder.cookieHandler() method. This method gets an argument of the CookieManager type.

The following solution sets CookieManager that doesn't accept cookies:

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newBuilder()  .cookieHandler(new CookieManager(null, CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_NONE))  .build();

For accepting cookies, set CookiePolicy to ALL (accept all cookies) or ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER (accept cookies only from the original server). ...