How do I make an http request using cookies on flutter?

Question

I\'d like to make an http request to a remote server while properly handling cookies (eg. storing cookies sent by the server, and sending those cookies when I make subsequen

Answer 1

I found best solution to handle cookies for redirect also

import 'dart:convert';
import 'dart:io';

class CustomHTTPClient{
  final HttpClient _client = new HttpClient();
  Map _cookies = Map();

  CustomHTTPClient(){
    _client.connectionTimeout = Duration(seconds: 10);
  }

  Future get(String url, {int maxRedirect = 3}) async {
    final parsedUrl = Uri.parse(url);
    return await _client.getUrl(parsedUrl)
        .then((HttpClientRequest request) {
      request.followRedirects = false;
      _beforeRequest(request);
      return request.close();
    }).then((HttpClientResponse response) async {
      _afterResponse(response);
      if(response.isRedirect && maxRedirect > 0){
        return await response.drain().then((value) => get(parsedUrl.resolve(response.headers.value('location')).toString(), maxRedirect: maxRedirect - 1));
      }
      return response.transform(utf8.decoder).join();
    }).catchError((error, stack){
      print(error);print(stack);
    });
  }

  void _beforeRequest(HttpClientRequest request){
    request.headers.set(HttpHeaders.acceptEncodingHeader, 'gzip, deflate, br');

    // Set cookie
    final String rawCookies = _cookies.keys.map((String name) => '$name=${_cookies[name]}').join('; ');
    if(rawCookies.isNotEmpty) request.headers.set(HttpHeaders.cookieHeader, rawCookies);
  }

  void _afterResponse(HttpClientResponse response){
    response.headers.forEach((String name, List values){
      if(name == 'set-cookie'){ // Get cookies for next request
        values.forEach((String rawCookie){
          try{
            Cookie cookie = Cookie.fromSetCookieValue(rawCookie);
            _cookies[cookie.name] = cookie.value;
          } catch(e){
            final List cookie = rawCookie.split(';')[0].split('=');
            _cookies[cookie[0]] = cookie[1];
          }
        });
        return false;
      }
    });
  }
}