HttpURLConnection not sending cookie values to server - java

I am using HttpURLConnection from android application for connecting rest services via POST method.
it is reaching to my server and after login server is setting some cookie to the response.
but when i am sending further requests then cookie is not going along with those requests.
please tell me the way to do it.
Thanks in advance

You should get the cookies from the login request and then send them as a request parameter in all the subsequent requests. You can set it like this:
conn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", YOUR_COOKIES_FROM_LOGIN_REQUEST);
You can find a demo here.

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will the site recognize that I am sending this from my Chrome browser in which I am already logged in?
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https://stackoverflow.com/a/3283496/1257445
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What library are you using ? It should have a method for sending cookies in the request.
Probably what you really need is to make cookie visible to server so it will look like normal HTTP request from browser. Is that right?
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