java - not able to read browser cookie using HttpClient -

i need check browser cookie (along id - password) decide if user valid or not. have set cookie in browser when user activates account. @ time of login need check cookie along credentials. using spring security (daoauthenticationprovider) authentication. setting cookie using code :

public void setcookie(string token, httpservletrequest request, httpservletresponse response) {     try {         cookie cookie = new cookie(cookiename, token);         cookie.setdomain(cookiedomain);         cookie.setpath(cookiepath);         cookie.setmaxage(31536000); // seconds 365 days         response.addcookie(cookie);     } catch(exception e) {         log.error("exception in setting cookie : {}", e.getmessage());     }    } 

when it's time read cookie, don't have httpservletrequest object me. because it's not spring controller can have request object. wrote method in spring controller return cookie value. code :

@requestmapping(value = "gettoken", method = requestmethod.get, produces={"text/html"}) public responseentity<string> gettoken(httpservletrequest request) {      string token = "";     cookie cookies[] = request.getcookies();      if (cookies != null) {         (int = 0; < cookies.length; i++) {             system.out.println("cookie details : " + cookies[i].getname()             + "\t" + cookies[i].getvalue());             if (cookiename.equalsignorecase(cookies[i].getname())) {                 token = cookies[i].getvalue();                 break;             }         }     } else {         logger.info("no cookies found...");     }     return new responseentity<string>(token,httpstatus.ok); } 

this spring controller action returns cookie value. when hit url, can see returned cookie value in browser.

now call url within application using httpclient. code :

public boolean iscookievalid(string token) {     boolean valid = false;     try {                string requesturl = serverurl + "gettoken";         log.info("requesturl : {} ", requesturl);          defaulthttpclient httpclient = new defaulthttpclient();         httpcontext localcontext = new basichttpcontext();         httpget getrequest = new httpget(requesturl.trim());         getrequest.addheader("accept", "text/html");         httpresponse response = httpclient.execute(getrequest,localcontext);          system.out.println("call success : " + response.getstatusline().getstatuscode());         if (response.getstatusline().getstatuscode() != 200) {             return false;         }          httpentity entity = response.getentity();         if (entity != null) {             string cookietoken = entityutils.tostring(entity);             system.out.println("cookie token : " + cookietoken);             if(token.equalsignorecase(cookietoken)) {                 valid = true;             }         }         httpclient.getconnectionmanager().shutdown();           } catch (exception e) {         log.info("exception in reading cookies : {}", e.getmessage());           }     return valid; } 

when hit spring action using http client, receive http 200 response code. spring controller not able read cookie. idea problem? has better approach ?

gettoken() extracts cookie request receives. so, how expect token it, when send request httpclient without adding cookies request? when use browser call gettoken(), browser sends cookies set earlier same webapp along request. that's why token back.