Parsing the response headers in Java from URLConnection object

Often when doing programming with HTTP requests and responses there would be headers that would be sent via URLConnection object.

A generic  java snippet to parse the headers are like this.

	String new_loc = urlConnection.getHeaderField("Location");
	String finalCookieString = "";
	Map<String, List<String>> hmOFHeaderFields = urlConnection.getHeaderFields();
	Set<String> setOfKeys = hmOFHeaderFields.keySet();
	List cookieList = null;
	for (String key4Headers : setOfKeys) {
	if ("Set-Cookie".equalsIgnoreCase(key4Headers)) {
	cookieList = hmOFHeaderFields.get("Set-Cookie");
	}
	}
	...
	for (String cookie : cookieList) {
	StringTokenizer stTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(cookie, ";");
	temp = stTokenizer.nextToken();
	finalCookieString += temp+";";
	}

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