Android httpclient cookie rejected illegal path attribute

Question

I'm building an android application which use httpclient to post and retrieve data to a wordpress server.

I can't send a post data because of the invalid path in the cookie. Here's the log I retrieved:

Cookie rejected: "BasicClientCookie[version=0,name=wordpress_654732f696815924ebd07fb96f161421,domain=[my-domain],path=/wp-content/plugins,expiry=Thu Feb 13 07:53:10 GMT+07:00 2014]".Illegal path attribute "/wp-content/plugins". Path of origin: "/api/auth/generate_auth_cookie/"

Cookie rejected: "BasicClientCookie[version=0,name=wordpress_654732f696815924ebd07fb96f161421,domain=[my-domain],path=/wp-admin,expiry=Thu Feb 13 07:53:10 GMT+07:00 2014]". Illegal path attribute "/wp-admin". Path of origin: "/api/auth/generate_auth_cookie/"

I've searched the forum, and tried solutions given, but it still rejects the cookie from the app. Several solutions I've tried are:

• set cookie policy

  httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY,
  CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY);
  

• This example (here)

• This solution, still no result

here's my android code so far for sending http post data

 CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
        httpclient.setCookieStore(cookieStore);

        CookieSpecFactory csf = new CookieSpecFactory() {
            @Override
            public CookieSpec newInstance(HttpParams httpParams) {
                return new BrowserCompatSpec(){
                    @Override
                    public void validate (Cookie cookie, CookieOrigin origin)
                            throws MalformedCookieException{
                            Log.d("COOKIE", "force validate cookie path info: " + cookie.getPath() +
                                    ", origin: " + origin.getPath());
                    }
                };
            }
        };
        httpclient.getCookieSpecs().register("custom_validate", csf);
        httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, "custom_validate");

        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
        if(postData != null){
            httppost.setEntity(postData);
        }

        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

I've gone through this all day, but no results. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Try these steps:

1. you have to declare cookies list static variable on you web service call common class

   public static List<Cookie> cookies;
   

2. when you login get cookies from respone httpclient and assign it to static cookies list. // here i gave demo login request

   private void login(){
   try {
          DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
          HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
          if(postData != null){
               httppost.setEntity(postData);
           }
   
           HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
           try {
               cookies = httpclient.getCookieStore().getCookies();
           } catch (Exception e) {
           }
       } catch (Throwable e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
       }
   }
   

3. now get httpclient object base on login cookies for rest of server request.

   public DefaultHttpClient getHttpclient() {
   DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
   if (cookies != null) {
         int size = cookies.size();
         for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
             httpclient.getCookieStore().addCookie(cookies.get(i));
         }
    }
   
    // you have also set your extra properties of httpclient like user-agent and time etc. here
       return httpclient;
   }