How to get Cookies using HttpClient

Question

Hello I am using HttpClient to get Cookies but I am unable find any cookies.My Code is given below public class LoginTab {

private Cookie[] cookies;
HttpClient httpClient;
HttpState httpState;
HashMap postData;

public LoginTab() {
    httpClient = new HttpClient();
    httpState = new HttpState();
    httpClient.getHttpConnectionManager().
            getParams().setConnectionTimeout(300000);
    httpClient.setState(httpState);
    // RFC 2101 cookie management spec is used per default
    // to parse, validate, format & match cookies
    httpClient.getParams().setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.RFC_2109);
    postData= new HashMap();
}

public String getMethod(String url) {
    GetMethod getMethod = new GetMethod(url);
      String pageSoure="";
    try{
    httpClient.executeMethod(getMethod);
     pageSoure=getMethod.getResponseBodyAsString();
    extractUsefulPostData(pageSoure, postData);
    getMethod.releaseConnection();
    }catch(Exception ex)
    {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
    return pageSoure;
}
public static void main(String[]arg)
{
    LoginTab loginTab= new LoginTab();
    System.out.println(loginTab.getMethod("http://tab.com.au/"));
    Cookie [] cookies=loginTab.httpState.getCookies();
    System.out.println(cookies.length);
    for(int i=0;i<cookies.length;i++)
        System.out.println(cookies[i]);
}

}

Please suggest me where is the mistake. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I have tried with all the CookiePolicy available and also setting "user-agent" stuff without success. From what i see with java - verbose there's a trapped exception in getCookie() method that raises:

org.apache.commons.httpclient.util.DateParseException

Probably cookie received from site (i can see it with Cookie Editor on firefox) has something not good for httpclient; have a look at this thread for the same problem.
From what i see, you need to enable logging and check what httpclient does on cookie parsing.