How do I manage cookies with HttpClient in Android and/or Java?

You need to use HttpContext. Set cookie store to context and pass context long with HttpGet/HttpPost in execute method. Hope this should help.

See example: Complete code can be found here

   // Create a local instance of cookie store    CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();    // Create local HTTP context    HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();    // Bind custom cookie store to the local context    localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);    HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://www.google.com/");     System.out.println("executing request " + httpget.getURI());    // Pass local context as a parameter    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget, localContext);

I was unable to get my own code working (I might work on it again later), but I found useful code here Android project using httpclient --> http.client (apache), post/get method and I am using the class built by Charlie Collins, which is similar to the Http Code in the ZXing Android example. I may eventually move to the ZXing code.

for me it didn't work, until i made both HttpContext and CookieStore static, to stay for all requests.