Reputation: 41
I've been trying to pass cookies from an HttpsURLConnection to my browser. Unfortunately, I haven't found... Well, anything at all on the topic besides Android, which is not what I want. The cookies are session-specific, so I have to download them from the webpage every time. Is there any way to open a webpage from Java in a browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc) and send cookies over?
Code so far: (Yes, I know putting "throws Exception" on the main method is not smart in any way. Please just ignore it, it won't be there when this is working.)
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String httpsURL = "https://www.link.com";
URL myurl = new URL(httpsURL);
HttpsURLConnection con;
CookieManager cManager = new CookieManager();
CookieHandler.setDefault(cManager);
/* Start by connecting to website so CookieManager can grab cookies */
con = (HttpsURLConnection) myurl.openConnection();
/*COOKIES*/
CookieStore cookieJar = cManager.getCookieStore();
List<HttpCookie> cookies = cookieJar.getCookies();
System.out.println("COOKIES:");
String list = null;
for (HttpCookie cookie : cookies) {
if (list != null) {
list += "; ";
}
list += cookie.getName()+"="+cookie.getValue();
System.out.println(cookie.getName() + " : " + cookie.getValue());
}
con.disconnect();
// Here is where I want the cookies to transfer to the browser...
}
Upvotes: 0
Views: 2333
Reputation: 41
SOLVED:
I'm using Firefox, so I had the program access the Firefox cookies database using SQLite and add/modify the cookies manually. Something like this:
public static void writeCookie(List<String> nameList, List<HttpCookie> cookies, int lastID) {
Connection connection;
Statement statement;
try {
Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC");
connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlite:" + cookieDirectory + "cookies.sqlite");
statement = connection.createStatement();
connection.setAutoCommit(false);
System.out.println.println("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Opened database successfully~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~");
HttpCookie myCookie;
for (int a = 0; a < cookies.size(); a++) {
System.out.println("=========Cookie " + a + "...===========");
myCookie = cookies.get(a);
System.out.println("Name = " + myCookie.getName());
System.out.println("Value = " + myCookie.getValue());
System.out.println("Max Age = " + myCookie.getMaxAge());
System.out.println("Comment = " + myCookie.getComment());
System.out.println("Path = " + myCookie.getPath());
if (nameList.contains(myCookie.getName())) { // UPDATE COOKIE
System.out.println("Updating");
String sql = "UPDATE moz_cookies set value = '" + myCookie.getValue() + "' where name='" + myCookie.getName() + "';";
statement.executeUpdate(sql);
connection.commit();
} else { // CREATE NEW COOKIES
System.out.println("Creating " + myCookie.getName());
System.out.println("id = " + lastID);
String sql = "INSERT INTO moz_cookies (ID,BASEDOMAIN,APPID,INBROWSERELEMENT,NAME,VALUE,HOST,PATH,EXPIRY,LASTACCESSED,CREATIONTIME,ISSECURE) "
+ "VALUES (" + lastID + ", 'site.com', 0, 0, '" + myCookie.getName() + "', '" + myCookie.getValue() + "', '.site.com', '" + myCookie.getPath()
+ "', 1464970835, " + (System.currentTimeMillis() * 1000) + ", " + (System.currentTimeMillis() * 1000) + ", '" + myCookie.getSecure() + "' );";
statement.executeUpdate(sql);
connection.commit();
lastID++;
}
}
connection.commit();
connection.close();
statement.close();
System.out.println("Cookies successfully saved!");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Upvotes: 2