CookieManager class in Java

java.net.CookieManager

CookieManager provides a concrete implementation of CookieHandler, which separates the storage of cookies from the policy surrounding accepting and rejecting cookies. A CookieManager is initialized with a CookieStore which manages storage, and a CookiePolicy object, which makes policy decisions on cookie acceptance/rejection.

Some methods of CookieManager class

CookieManager(): Create a new cookie manager.

CookieManager(CookieStore, CookiePolicy): This method creates a new cookie manager with a specified cookie store and cookie policy.

get(URI, Map): This method gets all the applicable cookies from a cookie cache for the specified uri in the request header.

getCookieStore(): To retrieve the current cookie store.

put(URI, Map): This method sets all the applicable cookies, examples are response header fields that are named Set-Cookie2, present in the response headers into a cookie cache.

setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy): To set the cookie policy of this cookie manager.

Some other classes/interfaces of java.net

Authenticator: The class Authenticator represents an object that knows how to obtain authentication for a network connection.

BindException: Signals that an error occurred while attempting to bind a socket to a local address and port. 

CacheRequest: Represents channels for storing resources in the ResponseCache.

CacheResponse: Represent channels for retrieving resources from the ResponseCache.

ConnectException: Signals that an error occurred while attempting to connect a socket to a remote address and port.

ContentHandler: The abstract class ContentHandler is the superclass of all classes that read an Object from a URLConnection.

ContentHandlerFactory: This interface defines a factory for content handlers. Implementing this interface should map a MIME type into an instance of ContentHandler.

CookieHandler: A CookieHandler object provides a callback mechanism to hook up an HTTP state management policy implementation into the HTTP protocol handler.

CookieManager: CookieManager provides a concrete implementation of CookieHandler, which separates the storage of cookies from the policy surrounding accepting and rejecting cookies. 

CookiePolicy: CookiePolicy implementations decide which cookies should be accepted and which should be rejected.

CookieStore: A CookieStore object represents storage for cookies. Can store and retrieve cookies.

DatagramPacket: This class represents a datagram packet.