setting Cookies in WebView android

Question

I'm trying to set some cookies on my WebView to open a browser with the same session that I have on my app.

I read a lot of answers but they don't work for me. The only solution I've found is in the loadUrl, hardcode the cookie data in extraHeaders, but as expected this only works for this requests, and doesn't maintain the session.

The code that I have is:

CookieSyncManager cookieSyncManager = CookieSyncManager.createInstance(mWebView.getContext());
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();
cookieManager.setAcceptCookie(true);
cookieManager.removeSessionCookie();
cookieManager.setCookie("http://xx.xxx.example.com","mid="+MySession.GetSession().sessionId+" ; Domain=.example.com");
cookieSyncManager.sync();

String cookie = cookieManager.getCookie("http://xx.xxx.example.com");

Log.d(LOGTAG, "cookie ------>"+cookie);
mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new TuWebViewClient());
mWebView.loadUrl("http://xx.xx.example.com");

getCookie() returns the correct data, but when I read the cookies from the server, those are empty. What is wrong? Please advise. Thank you!!!

My working code and the approach to the compilation of the query http://stackoverflow.com/a/32189400/5261591 — Vadim.Ivanov, Aug 24 '15 at 18:47

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 25 '12 at 09:52

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Solved!!!! the problem is with the webView, I dont know what happend, but If I create the

WebView webView = new WebView(Activity.this);

it works. If I read the webview from activity with findViewById() it doesn't work.

Also if you need to set a list of cookies that you received previously from a website. All you have to do is use a for-loop to go through and set all of them . It helped me to solve the situation

edited Oct 25 '12 at 09:52

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answered Mar 23 '11 at 17:20

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So with way working ? Your answer is not clear to me, can you explain it ? – Alex Oct 19 '11 at 08:47
well alex I don't know why, but If you take the webView with findViewById doesnt work, if you create the webView manually and add to layout works. – flipper83 Oct 27 '11 at 16:43
@flipper83 I'm facing the same problem now.. can you explain with details what you exactly did? – Lara Aug 12 '14 at 11:48
for me it was working with findViewById() btw thanks :) – Sanket Kachhela Oct 10 '14 at 13:02

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 29 '12 at 16:48

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CookieSyncManager cookieSyncManager = CookieSyncManager.createInstance(mWebView.getContext());
...
cookieSyncManager.sync();

is the cause of problem. You should do like this:

CookieSyncManager.createInstance(mWebView.getContext());
...
CookieSyncManager.getInstance().sync();

And there will be no need to manually create WebView...

answered Dec 29 '12 at 16:48

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this CookieSyncManager.createInstance(mWebView.getContext()); helped me somehow. I was passing some different context to cookie sync manager. Thanks. – Darpan Jul 11 '13 at 16:42
I think this is the correct solution to the problem. – Adrián Pérez Aug 06 '14 at 11:10
can this makes the cookies available to normal web browser as well for future use?? – Manish Patiyal May 29 '17 at 10:15

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