WebView is eating our Cookies

[Fisher, Robert]

I have a question about this bug:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027021

It's over 2 years old at this point, so I wonder if it has fallen through the cracks.  For us it means as soon as anyone instantiates a WebView anywhere in our app, our REST clients stop processing Cookies correctly.

Is it on the agenda at all?

Below I've included a test program using jersey-client 1.18.1 and the output in our case.

Cheers,
Rob

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public class WebViewBug extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
        callAndPrintResponseInfo();
        new WebView();
        callAndPrintResponseInfo();
    }

    private void callAndPrintResponseInfo() {
        String url = "some URL that returns a cookie in its response header";
        Client client = Client.create();
        ClientResponse response = client.resource(url).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_TYPE).get(ClientResponse.class);

        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Status: " + response.getStatus());
        System.out.println("Set-Cookie: " + response.getHeaders().getFirst("Set-Cookie"));
        System.out.println("Content-Type: " + response.getHeaders().getFirst("Content-Type"));
    }
}

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Status: 200
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=9a5873b18b843c2bece162e36b0c; Path=[not relevant]; HttpOnly
Content-Type: application/xml

Status: 200
Set-Cookie:
Content-Type: application/xml