Disable/Ignore Cookies with Httpclient

The latest httpclient (4.5.1) has a method called "disableCookieManagement", and it appears this just disables the internal cookie management, not the ability to send or receive cookies, and is working for me-

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Set httpclient.setCookieStore(cookieStore); before you execute your HttpClient

Force to setup the HttpContext before executing the request:

private HttpClientContext httpContext = new HttpClientContext();
httpContext.setCookieStore(new BasicCookieStore());

The setCookieStore will create an empty cookie store to replace the default cookie store of http connection.

After that we can execute the http method:

org.apache.http.client.HttpClient.execute(HttpUriRequest, HttpContext)

Also we can reuse the cookie store (hold the BasicCookieStore) to keep the connection alive.

I could not find a way to disable/ignore cookie handling by DefaultHttpClient in Andoroid(I should have explored more into Android source code but have a time limitation). But I resolved it by removing all cookies before doing httpClient.execute() like this -

((AbstractHttpClient) myDefaultHttpClient).getCookieStore().clear();

This removes all the cookies stored by the defaultHttpClient and then you can manually handle(add/delete) cookies using -

myHttpPost.setHeader("Cookie", myCookie);

Hope it helps.