When HttpURLConnection gets a "Location:" header it redirects
to that URL. It also discards all the original http headers
before the redirect. This results in the loss of any
"Set-Cookie" headers and the loss of any cookies.

Setting a cookie in a redirect works in Netscape.

This is causing problems for Sherlock/AnswerBook2 which
uses this method to select display languages for docs.
I have heard third hand that Oracle may use this also.

This is reproducible with hotjava1.0m and JDK1.1.1E (fcs).
HotJava wont return the cookie since it never sees the
Set-Cookie header since its tosses after the redirect.

Attached is a CGI script which does:

Set-Cookie: COOKIE_REDIRECT=http://leconte.eng/~roberto
Location: http://leconte.eng/~roberto

You'll probably want to change the location that is
redirected to.