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Karl Wright commented on HTTPCLIENT-1267:
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A zero value means a transient cookie, no? Does httpcomponents not support
transient cookies? If so we cannot use this library for session login, since
most session-protected sites use this. Perhaps the problem is that
httpcomponents does not understand the special semantics of transient cookies.
FWIW, the cookie is being generated by Jetty, automatically, for tracking
session variables. Nothing special was done at all. It operates fine within a
browser context.
May I ask how expired cookies are supposedly cleared? If you are calling the
cookie store's expire method, then that is not what is happening; I
instrumented that and it never gets called during this test.
> There seems to be no way to get HttpClient to include cookies from a custom
> store
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> Key: HTTPCLIENT-1267
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1267
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HttpCookie
> Affects Versions: 4.2.2
> Reporter: Karl Wright
>
> In the port of ManifoldCF from commons-httpclient to httpcomponents, we
> discovered a problem or maybe a design flaw with how cookies are handled.
> What we're trying to do is to follow a certain series of html pages, and
> record the cookies after that is done, and use exactly those cookies for a
> subsequent series of pages. So I have code that looks something like this:
> {code}
> DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
> ...
> CookieStore cs = new BasicCookieStore();
> cs.addCookie(...); // for each saved cookie
> httpClient.setCookieStore(cs);
> HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(...);
> HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpget);
> Cookie[] cookiesToSave = httpClient.getCookieStore().getCookies();
> [save the cookies aside]
> {code}
> What happens when I do this against a page that sets a cookie, is I get a
> perfectly reasonable cookie, and save it. For the next page, the code to add
> the cookie to the custom store then seems to work fine as well. But when I
> watch what is transmitted for the request (via header logging) I see no
> Cookie header being sent, and indeed the cookie seems to be lost.
> Similar logic was done with HttpState in commons-httpclient, and worked
> perfectly there against the same website.
> I have not yet tried the HttpContext approach for implementing this - I may
> try that while awaiting an answer to this ticket, but the above seems like it
> ought to work, according to the documentation.
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