[jira] [Commented] (HTTPCLIENT-1267) There seems to be no way to get HttpClient to include cookies from a custom store

["Karl Wright (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Karl Wright commented on HTTPCLIENT-1267:
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Tried the HttpContext approach; no difference.  Here's a chunk of ManifoldCF log output showing header logging for HttpClient:

{code}
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Worker thread '1') - WEB: Adding 1 cookies for '/web/loginpage.html'
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Worker thread '1') - WEB:  Cookie '[version: 0][name: JSESSIONID][value: zlammg91w3dnsuc1j9ga3lln][domain: localhost][path: /web][expiry: null]' added
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - >> GET /web/loginpage.html?user=foo&password=bar HTTP/1.1
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - >> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ApacheManifoldCFWebCrawler; someone@somewhere.com)
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - >> From: someone@somewhere.com
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - >> Host: localhost:8191
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - >> Connection: Keep-Alive
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - << HTTP/1.1 302 Found
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - << Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=9qxi0v4tn2fi1lcaw5304be7b;Path=/web
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - << Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - << Location: http://localhost:8191/web/index.html
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - << Content-Length: 0
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Thread-434) - << Server: Jetty(7.5.4.v20111024)
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Worker thread '1') - WEB: Retrieving cookies...
DEBUG 2012-12-02 19:28:05,499 (Worker thread '1') - WEB:   Cookie '[version: 0][name: JSESSIONID][value: 9qxi0v4tn2fi1lcaw5304be7b][domain: localhost][path: /web][expiry: null]'
{code}

As you can see, the cookie gets added to the cookie store, but is then ignored during the Http GET request that follows.

                
> There seems to be no way to get HttpClient to include cookies from a custom store
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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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