How to get cookies with Java?

Question

How can I get a cookie from a web page using Java? I mean only Java not with Servlets or etc..

Answer 1

You can either get the cookies from the header,

or you can use Apache commons and use their functionality.

Answer 2

You can use java.net.URLConnection for this. It offers a getHeaderFields() method to get the response headers. The cookies are set by Set-Cookie header.

URLConnection connection = new URL("http://google.com").openConnection();
List<String> cookies = connection.getHeaderFields().get("Set-Cookie");
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