The JavaFX WebView project would benefit greatly from being able to set a custom CookieHandler for an individual connection or a group of connections. The current ability to configure the system-wide cookie handler via CookieHandler.setDefault does not suit well enough the WebView needs, especially in the applet mode, resulting in issues like http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-12202, http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-12199, http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-12200. It (the current mechanism) does not look flexible enough too. If HttpURLConnection allowed setting a CookieHandler per connection via e.g.

    void HttpURLConnection.setCookieHandler(CookieHandler)
    CookieHandler HttpURLConnection.setCookieHandler()

that would make the future of JavaFX WebView somewhat simpler.