Repeated cookies with same name and value

[Joan Balagueró]

Hello,

 

I’m querying an url (with head method) and printing all the response headers
received:

 

HttpResponse response = objHttp.execute(objHead);

 

HeaderIterator it = response.headerIterator();

       

while (it.hasNext())

{

Header h = it.nextHeader();

System.out.println(h.getName() + " = " + h.getValue());

}

 

These are the headers:

 

Date = Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:43:04 GMT

Server = Microsoft-IIS/6.0

Etag = 

X-XSS-Protection = 0

SRV = 18

X-Powered-By = ASP.NET

X-AspNet-Version = 4.0.30319

Set-Cookie = purgado=1; expires=Tue, 14-May-2013 16:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = devType=0; expires=Tue, 14-May-2013 16:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = ck_idioma=es; expires=Mon, 14-Apr-2014 16:43:04 GMT; path=/;
HttpOnly

Set-Cookie = ck_sesion=2128718291; expires=Mon, 14-Apr-2014 16:43:04 GMT;
path=/; HttpOnly

Set-Cookie = USW_codigo=1615631414; expires=Mon, 14-Apr-2014 16:43:04 GMT;
path=/; HttpOnly

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Set-Cookie = preferencia=-1; expires=Sun, 14-Apr-2013 17:43:04 GMT; path=/

Cache-Control = private

Content-Type = text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Content-Length = 172813

 

 

Obviously this is not a problem with HttpClient, but is it posible to
receive the same cookie 12 times? Does this complain the http specification?
Should HttpResponse remove the repeated headers with exactly the same name
and value?

 

Thanks,

Joan.