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sriram
sriram

Reputation: 9032

How to test if a web site returns cookie using java?

Hi I'm trying to test whether a site returns a cookie or not. I'm very new to Java.

I Have opened the connection using :

conn = "https://mysite.com/".toURL().openConnection()

Having opened the connection, how to test whether the site mysite returns the cookie or not?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 120

Answers (1)

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500535

To start with, I'd suggest using a higher level API than URLConnection. There are various HTTP libraries around. Some of them would even work out all the cookies for you - but even if they don't... you just need to check for the Set-Cookie header in the response. (If you do want to stick with URLConnection, that gives you the headers too... I'm just generally wary of it being a pain compared with other HTTP libraries.)

Set-Cookie is used by the server to send cookies to the client; the Cookie header is used by the client to send cookies back to the server. See RFC 2965 and RFC 6265 for more information.

Upvotes: 4

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