Add cookies to retrofit 2 request

Question

I need to add cookies with retrofit 2.0. If i understand correct, cookies - the same as headers. this cookies must be added:

private HashMap<String, String> cookies = new HashMap();
cookies.put("sessionid", "sessionId");
cookies.put("token", "token");

this one work with Jsoup lib:

String json = Jsoup.connect(apiURL + "/link")
                    .cookies(cookies)
                    .ignoreHttpErrors(true)
                    .ignoreContentType(true)
                    .execute()
                    .body();

here is my code with retrofit request:

@GET("link")
Call<CbGet> getData(@Header("sessionid") String sessionId, @Header("token") String token);

but it is doesn't work... i get 403 error code so there are no cookies in the request...

any idea?

Answer 1

First of all: cookie is not the same as a header. Cookie is a special HTTP header named Cookie followed by list of the pairs of keys and values (separated by ";"). Something like:

Cookie: sessionid=sessionid; token=token

Since you cannot set multiple Cookie headers in the same request you are not able to use two @Header annotations for separate values (sessionid and token in your sample). I can think of one very hacky workaround:

@GET("link")
Call<CbGet> getData(@Header("Cookie") String sessionIdAndToken);

You change your method to send sessionId and token in one string. So in this case you should manually generate cookie string beforehand. In your case sessionIdAndToken String object should be equal to "sessionid=here_goes_sessionid; token=here_goes_token"

The proper solution is to set cookies by adding OkHttp's (that is library Retrofit uses for making underlying http calls) request interceptor. You can see solution or adding custom headers here.