How can I disable/ignore default cookie handling of httpclient. I want to do it manually. I want to set a pre-defined cookie header for all http requests.
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The latest httpclient (4.5.1) has a method called "disableCookieManagement", and it appears this just disables the internal cookie management, not the ability to send or receive cookies, and is working for me-
Set httpclient.setCookieStore(cookieStore); before you execute your HttpClient
Force to setup the HttpContext before executing the request:
private HttpClientContext httpContext = new HttpClientContext(); httpContext.setCookieStore(new BasicCookieStore()); The setCookieStore will create an empty cookie store to replace the default cookie store of http connection.
After that we can execute the http method:
org.apache.http.client.HttpClient.execute(HttpUriRequest, HttpContext) Also we can reuse the cookie store (hold the BasicCookieStore) to keep the connection alive.
I could not find a way to disable/ignore cookie handling by DefaultHttpClient in Andoroid(I should have explored more into Android source code but have a time limitation). But I resolved it by removing all cookies before doing httpClient.execute() like this -
((AbstractHttpClient) myDefaultHttpClient).getCookieStore().clear(); This removes all the cookies stored by the defaultHttpClient and then you can manually handle(add/delete) cookies using -
myHttpPost.setHeader("Cookie", myCookie); Hope it helps.
