Java standalone app - how to read (http) cookies

Question

When using Java in an app server environment, of course, you can read the cookies.

Is it possible to read cookies from a Java Standalone program? Often the next example is shown. When running, no cookies are listed.

public class CookiesReader {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        CookieManager manager = new CookieManager();
        manager.setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ALL);
        CookieHandler.setDefault(manager);
        try {
            URL url = new URL("https://nu.nl");
            URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
            connection.getContent();
            CookieStore cookieJar = manager.getCookieStore();
            List<HttpCookie> cookies = cookieJar.getCookies();
            for (HttpCookie cookie : cookies) {
                System.out.println("CookieHandler retrieved cookie: " + cookie);
            }
        } catch ( Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

SOLUTION: thanks to Sotirios Delimanolis

The steps are: open connection > get access to the header fields > access the "Set-Cookie" attribute > parse the cookie stuff.

public class CookiesReader {
    static final String COOKIES_HEADER = "Set-Cookie";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        CookieManager cookieManager = new CookieManager();
        CookieHandler.setDefault(cookieManager);
        try {
            URL url = new URL("https://google.com");
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            connection.getContent();
            Map<String, List<String>> headerFields = connection.getHeaderFields();
            List<String> cookiesHeader = headerFields.get(COOKIES_HEADER);
            if (cookiesHeader != null) {
                for (String cookie : cookiesHeader) {
                    try {
                        cookieManager.getCookieStore().add(null, HttpCookie.parse(cookie).get(0));
                    } catch( Exception e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            }
            if (cookieManager.getCookieStore().getCookies().size() > 0) {
                for (HttpCookie ck : cookieManager.getCookieStore().getCookies()) {
                    System.out.println("Cookie name: " + ck.getName());
                    System.out.println("Domain: " + ck.getDomain());
                    System.out.println("Max age: " + ck.getMaxAge());
                    System.out.println("Server path: " + ck.getPath());
                    System.out.println("Is secured: " + ck.getSecure());
                    System.out.println("Cookie value: " + ck.getValue());
                    System.out.println("Cookie protocol version: " + ck.getVersion());
                }
            }
        } catch ( Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}