How to set a cookie to a WebView?

Question

I have a Fragment with a WebView and I want set a cookie that I have get her string "name=value".

The following SO links recommend to do a sleep after doing "cookieManager.removeSessionCookie()".

The code of my AsyncTask is that follows:

private class WebViewTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Boolean> {
    String sessionCookie;
    CookieManager cookieManager;

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        CookieSyncManager.createInstance(getActivity());
        cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();

        sessionCookie = cookieManager.getCookie(BASE_URL);

        if (sessionCookie != null) {
            sessionCookie = sessionCookie + "; domain=" + BASE_URL;
            /* delete old cookies */
            cookieManager.removeSessionCookie();
        }

        super.onPreExecute();
    }
    protected Boolean doInBackground(Void... param) {
        /* this is very important - THIS IS THE HACK */
        SystemClock.sleep(1000);
        return false;
    }
    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {

        if (sessionCookie != null) {
            cookieManager.setCookie(BASE_URL, sessionCookie);
            CookieSyncManager.getInstance().sync();
        }

        WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webSettings.setBuiltInZoomControls(false);
        mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
            @Override
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);
            }

        });
        mWebView.loadUrl(EDIT_URL);
    }
}

In that code I get correctly the sessionCookie with the format: "name=value" and later I add ;domain=BASE_URL.

How I set the session cookie correctly to the WebView?

PD:

mWebView is the WebView inside a fragment that I want to set the cookie.
This AsyncTask is executed from the onCreateView method of a Fragment after getting the mWebView object.
If it helps, I use robospice and retrofit libraries.

Others SO questions checked:

Thanks in advance.

How to set a cookie to a WebView?

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