How can I get the cookies from HttpClient?

Question

I am using HttpClient 4.1.2

HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(uri);  HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpget); 

So, how can I get the cookie values?

Answer 1

Not sure why the accepted answer describes a method getCookieStore() that does not exist. That is incorrect.

You must create a cookie store beforehand, then build the client using that cookie store. Then you can later refer to this cookie store to get a list of cookies.

/* init client */ HttpClient http = null; CookieStore httpCookieStore = new BasicCookieStore(); HttpClientBuilder builder = HttpClientBuilder.create().setDefaultCookieStore(httpCookieStore); http = builder.build();  /* do stuff */ HttpGet httpRequest = new HttpGet("http://stackoverflow.com/"); HttpResponse httpResponse = null; try {httpResponse = http.execute(httpRequest);} catch (Throwable error) {throw new RuntimeException(error);}  /* check cookies */ httpCookieStore.getCookies(); 

Answer 2

Yet another to get other people started, seeing non-existent methods scratching their heads...

import org.apache.http.Header; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;  Header[] headers = httpResponse.getHeaders("Set-Cookie"); for (Header h : headers) {     System.out.println(h.getValue().toString());   } 

This will print the values of the cookies. The server response can have several Set-Cookie header fields, so you need to retrieve an array of Headers