public static List<HttpCookie> parse (String header)

Constructs cookies from set-cookie or set-cookie2 header string. RFC 2965 section 3.2.2 set-cookie2 syntax indicates that one header line may contain more than one cookie definitions, so this is a static utility method instead of another constructor.

Parameters:
header     a String specifying the set-cookie header. The header should start with "set-cookie", or "set-cookie2" token; or it should have no leading token at all.

Returns:  a List of cookie parsed from header line string

Exceptions:
IllegalArgumentException     if header string violates the cookie specification's syntax or the cookie name contains illegal characters.
NullPointerException     if the header string is null