CookieManager.getCookie() returns different values

Below is my code to get some cookies post authentication in an android application.

String url = "https://host:port/sso/SSOServlet"; BasicCookieStore cookieJar = new BasicCookieStore(); CookieManager cookieMgr = CookieManager.getInstance(); String host = null; URL urlObj = Util.getUrl(url); host = urlObj.getHost();  String cookiesHost = cookieMgr.getCookie(host);   String cookiesURL = cookieMgr.getCookie(url); 

So cookieMgr.getCookie() returns different value for certain server if I use host instead of url. Why is that? For some servers, it returns the same values if I use either host or url. Why this might be happening?

2 Answers

Answers 1

getHost() returns just the domain name. For instance, google.com out of http://google.com/search. I'm guessing your getUrl() method returns the entire URL.

This gives the CookieManager instance different inputs, resulting in different outputs.

Answers 2

It is difficult to determine the exact issue causing the varied results without knowing what is being returned for each variable.

Please provide the values of cookiesHost and cookiesURL when you are seeing the difference in the cookies.

As mentioned in the first response to your issue if you use example.com (HOST), a session and a cookie is created for example.com, then most likely a redirect to the BaseURL www.example.com creates a new session.

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