cookie persistence with DefaultHttpClient and Swingworker

I have a swingworker class calling a method that uses DefaultHttpClient to establish a persistent connection to a secure web site. After I login and make a request to the site with an instance of swingworker, the instance of swingworker closes (as is normal). My question is: how do I maintain the persistent login to the site so I can make a future request with another instance of swingworker - without logging into the site again (I have created a s开发者_如何学Cession)? I cannot pass an instance of DefaultHttpClient to the swingworker class (at least I don't know how). I have considered saving the cookie data to a file and then passing it the the DefaultHttpClient... but am I missing something more fundamental?

Thanks, Rob

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You can pass any parameter you want to the constructor of your SwingWorker subclass, as suggested in this example, and you can do so with each invocation.