Android HttpClient and Cookies

I had the same problem and I used similar approach as in the question with no luck.
The thing that made it work for me was to add the domain for each copied cookie.
(BasicClientCookie cookie.setDomain(String))

My util function:

public static BasicCookieStore getCookieStore(String cookies, String domain) {
    String[] cookieValues = cookies.split(";");
    BasicCookieStore cs = new BasicCookieStore();

    BasicClientCookie cookie;
    for (int i = 0; i < cookieValues.length; i++) {
        String[] split = cookieValues[i].split("=");
        if (split.length == 2)
            cookie = new BasicClientCookie(split[0], split[1]);
        else
            cookie = new BasicClientCookie(split[0], null);

        cookie.setDomain(domain);
        cs.addCookie(cookie);
    }
    return cs;
}

 String cookies = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(url);
 BasicCookieStore lCS = getCookieStore(cookies, MyApp.sDomain);

 HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
 DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
 httpclient.setCookieStore(lCS);
 localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, lCS);
 ...

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