Android 4.4 KitKat not receiving cookies

Question

In my application I send a POST request to a server, and receive a response from the server. And from the response I gather different cookies, user information specifically. So,

Answer 1

This code worked fine for me prior to KitKat 4.4 update -

HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

//handle cookies
CookieManager cookieManager = new CookieManager();
CookieHandler.setDefault(cookieManager);

It broke after 4.4.2 (at least that's when I noticed it), and cookies were no longer received. Simply moving the CookieManager and CookieHandler before opening the urlConnection fixed it again .. bizarre that it worked before! eg.

//handle cookies
CookieManager cookieManager = new CookieManager();
CookieHandler.setDefault(cookieManager);

HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();