How to parse a cookie string
You can use Apache HttpClient's facilities for that.
Here's an excerpt from CookieJar:
CookieSpec cookieSpec = new BrowserCompatSpec();
List<Cookie> parseCookies(URI uri, List<String> cookieHeaders) {
ArrayList<Cookie> cookies = new ArrayList<Cookie>();
int port = (uri.getPort() < 0) ? 80 : uri.getPort();
boolean secure = "https".equals(uri.getScheme());
CookieOrigin origin = new CookieOrigin(uri.getHost(), port,
uri.getPath(), secure);
for (String cookieHeader : cookieHeaders) {
BasicHeader header = new BasicHeader(SM.SET_COOKIE, cookieHeader);
try {
cookies.addAll(cookieSpec.parse(header, origin));
} catch (MalformedCookieException e) {
L.d(e);
}
}
return cookies;
}
How about java.net.HttpCookie
:
List<HttpCookie> cookies = HttpCookie.parse(header);
I believe you'll have to parse it out manually. Try this:
BasicClientCookie parseRawCookie(String rawCookie) throws Exception {
String[] rawCookieParams = rawCookie.split(";");
String[] rawCookieNameAndValue = rawCookieParams[0].split("=");
if (rawCookieNameAndValue.length != 2) {
throw new Exception("Invalid cookie: missing name and value.");
}
String cookieName = rawCookieNameAndValue[0].trim();
String cookieValue = rawCookieNameAndValue[1].trim();
BasicClientCookie cookie = new BasicClientCookie(cookieName, cookieValue);
for (int i = 1; i < rawCookieParams.length; i++) {
String rawCookieParamNameAndValue[] = rawCookieParams[i].trim().split("=");
String paramName = rawCookieParamNameAndValue[0].trim();
if (paramName.equalsIgnoreCase("secure")) {
cookie.setSecure(true);
} else {
if (rawCookieParamNameAndValue.length != 2) {
throw new Exception("Invalid cookie: attribute not a flag or missing value.");
}
String paramValue = rawCookieParamNameAndValue[1].trim();
if (paramName.equalsIgnoreCase("expires")) {
Date expiryDate = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL)
.parse(paramValue);
cookie.setExpiryDate(expiryDate);
} else if (paramName.equalsIgnoreCase("max-age")) {
long maxAge = Long.parseLong(paramValue);
Date expiryDate = new Date(System.getCurrentTimeMillis() + maxAge);
cookie.setExpiryDate(expiryDate);
} else if (paramName.equalsIgnoreCase("domain")) {
cookie.setDomain(paramValue);
} else if (paramName.equalsIgnoreCase("path")) {
cookie.setPath(paramValue);
} else if (paramName.equalsIgnoreCase("comment")) {
cookie.setPath(paramValue);
} else {
throw new Exception("Invalid cookie: invalid attribute name.");
}
}
}
return cookie;
}
I haven't actually compiled or run this code, but it should be a strong start. You'll probably have to mess with the date parsing a bit: I'm not sure that the date format used in cookies is actually the same as DateFormat.FULL
. (Check out this related question, which addresses handling the date format in cookies.) Also, note that there are some cookie attributes not handled by BasicClientCookie
such as version
and httponly
.
Finally, this code assumes that the name and value of the cookie appear as the first attribute: I'm not sure if that's necessarily true, but that's how every cookie I've ever seen is ordered.