In an android application, when using DefaultHttpClient
to get an URL content (executing HttpGet) I receive the following warning in logs:
W/ResponseProcessCookies(20386): Invalid cookie header: "Set-Cookie: NSC_vbue_iuuq=ffff660; expires=; domain=private.false.name; path=/; isSecure=false". Unable to parse expires attribute:
I understand the warning because the expires
field does not contain a valid date format. I understand it maybe because it is a 'session cookie' (without being expert). Thread about similar situation in Curl context
Searching the web I found mainly the
.setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.BEST_MATCH (or other) )
option to avoid warning by parsing correctly dates that contain a comma.
However, I would like to avoid that log. (not by disabling logs)
I believe internally all is fine since "I GUESS", cookie.setExpiryDate()
is simply not called.
Do you think I need a specific configuration of my HTTP client (I've not set specific configurations) to avoid that warning or to support empty expires?
Thanks.
If you do not mind altering the CookieSpec
you can supply your own, more lenient, subclass.
First, create a lenient CookieSpec
that will accept null
and empty values for the expires
attribute, like this:
class LenientCookieSpec extends BrowserCompatSpec {
public LenientCookieSpec() {
super();
registerAttribHandler(ClientCookie.EXPIRES_ATTR, new BasicExpiresHandler(DATE_PATTERNS) {
@Override public void parse(SetCookie cookie, String value) throws MalformedCookieException {
if (TextUtils.isEmpty(value)) {
// You should set whatever you want in cookie
cookie.setExpiryDate(null);
} else {
super.parse(cookie, value);
}
}
});
}
}
Now you need to register & choose this new CookieSpec
in your HTTP client.
DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
client.getCookieSpecs().register("lenient", new CookieSpecFactory() {
public CookieSpec newInstance(HttpParams params) {
return new LenientCookieSpec();
}
});
HttpClientParams.setCookiePolicy(client.getParams(), "lenient");
Something "like this" could work for you.