How to send a cookie in a URLConnection?

Question

What is the proper way to send a \'full\' cookie across a URLConnection?

I\'ve been using:

URL url = new URL(page);  
URLConnection urlConn = url.op         


        

Answer 1

Well, if you are only setting a cookie I guess you could simply do like:

urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "user=mary17; domain=airtravelbargains.com; path=/autos");

If you're setting more than one cookie than you could probably use the addRequestProperty method instead.

For the expires attribute make sure to use the format: Weekday, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT.

The only legal time zone is GMT, and the separators between the elements of the date must be dashes.