Android httpclient cookie rejected illegal path attribute
android, cookies, java, wordpress
Solution
Try these steps:
you have to declare cookies list static variable on you web service call common class
public static List<Cookie> cookies;
when you login get cookies from respone httpclient and assign it to static cookies list. // here i gave demo login request
private void login(){
try {
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
if(postData != null){
httppost.setEntity(postData);
}
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
try {
cookies = httpclient.getCookieStore().getCookies();
} catch (Exception e) {
}
} catch (Throwable e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
now get httpclient object base on login cookies for rest of server request.
public DefaultHttpClient getHttpclient() {
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
if (cookies != null) {
int size = cookies.size();
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
httpclient.getCookieStore().addCookie(cookies.get(i));
}
}
// you have also set your extra properties of httpclient like user-agent and time etc. here
return httpclient;
}
Problem
I'm building an android application which use httpclient to post and retrieve data to a wordpress server. I can't send a post data because of the invalid path in the cookie. Here's the log I retrieved: ``` Cookie rejected: "BasicClientCookie[version=0,name=wordpress_654732f696815924ebd07fb96f161421,domain=[my-domain],path=/wp-content/plugins,expiry=Thu Feb 13 07:53:10 GMT+07:00 2014]".Illegal path attribute "/wp-content/plugins". Path of origin: "/api/auth/generate_auth_cookie/" Cookie rejected: "BasicClientCookie[version=0,name=wordpress_654732f696815924ebd07fb96f161421,domain=[my-domain],path=/wp-admin,expiry=Thu Feb 13 07:53:10 GMT+07:00 2014]". Illegal path attribute "/wp-admin". Path of origin: "/api/auth/generate_auth_cookie/" ``` I've searched the forum, and tried solutions given, but it still rejects the cookie from the app. Several solutions I've tried are: set cookie policy ``` httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY); ``` This example (here) This solution, still no result here's my android code so far for sending http post data ``` CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore(); httpclient.setCookieStore(cookieStore); CookieSpecFactory csf = new CookieSpecFactory() { @Override public CookieSpec newInstance(HttpParams httpParams) { return new BrowserCompatSpec(){ @Override public void validate (Cookie cookie, CookieOrigin origin) throws MalformedCookieException{ Log.d("COOKIE", "force validate cookie path info: " + cookie.getPath() + ", origin: " + origin.getPath()); } }; } }; httpclient.getCookieSpecs().register("custom_validate", csf); httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, "custom_validate"); HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url); if(postData != null){ httppost.setEntity(postData); } HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost); ``` I've gone through this all day, but no results. Can anyone help?