Set a cookie to a webView in Android [duplicate]

Question

I'm getting a HttpResponse from a server when checking if a username or password is correct. When I load the url in a webview I want the webView to have the cookie (the answer I get with postData() stored in the webView. I want the webView to pickup the cookie and load the url with that cookie stored in the webview.

I'm getting the response through.

public HttpResponse postData() {     HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();     HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("https://example.com/login.aspx");      try {         List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);         nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("txtUsername", "user"));         nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("txtPassword", "123"));         httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));          HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);         String responseAsText = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());         Log.v(TAG , "Response from req: " + responseAsText);         return responseAsText;      } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {      } catch (IOException e) {      }     return null; } 

And I loadUrl with:

webView.loadUrl("http://a_page.com/getpage.aspx?p=home"); 

I guess I'm not really managing a cookie and I have no idea how to do so. Any suggestions or solutions?

Answer 1

It's quite simple really.

String cookieString = "cookie_name=cookie_value; path=/"; CookieManager.getInstance().setCookie(baseUrl, cookieString); 

where cookieString is formatted the same as a more traditional Set-Cookie HTTP header, and baseUrl is the site the cookie should belong to.