Remove specific java.net.CookieManager Cookie getting UnmodifiableCollection exception

Question

I am using java.net.CookieManager & java.net.CookieHandler to track cookies. I need to remove one but keep all others. The problem is that the List return from the using cookieManger.getCookieStore().getCookies() is unmodifiable and therefore throws an exception when I attempt to remove the cookie.
Here is the code regarding cookies:

public HttpProxy(String host, String port) {
    cookieManager = new CookieManager(null, CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ALL);
    CookieHandler.setDefault(cookieManager);
    //other irrelevant code
}

private CookieManager cookieManager;

public void deleteGameCookie() {
    CookieStore cookieStore = cookieManager.getCookieStore();
    List<HttpCookie> cookieList = cookieStore.getCookies();

    HttpCookie temp = null;
    // iterate HttpCookie object
    for (HttpCookie cookie : cookieList) {
        try {
            String name = URLDecoder.decode(cookie.getName().replace("+", "%2B"), "UTF-8").replace("%2B", "+");
            if(name.equals("catan.game")) {
                System.out.println("catan.game cookie found");
                temp = cookie;
            }
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            //System.out.println("Error decoding cookie... bummer...");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    cookieList.remove(temp);
}

Is there a way around this or a better way to do this?
I found a similar question about unmodifiable collections here but it hasn't been answered. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

you probably want to use one of the remove methods on cookie store not try and work with the list directly. see:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/CookieStore.html