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Cookie explicitly set on the request is getting discarded in favor of the one from the cookie jar #1964

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Expected Behavior

A cookie explicitly specified on a RequestBuilder should take precedence over a cookie stored in cookie jar.

Actual Behavior

cookieStore = httpClient.getCookieStore();
cookieStore.add("some_url", new DefaultCookie("name", "value1"));
BoundRequestBuilder requestBuilder = httpClient.prepareGet("some_url");
requestBuilder.addCookie(new DefaultCookie("name", "value2"));
httpClient.executeRequest(requestBuilder.build())

This code leads to a request being performed with cookie "name":"value1", which is not what is expected by a user when a user explicitly sets a cookie on a RequestBuilder.

Root cause

Cookies from cookie jar are overriding cookies coming from the RequestBuilder here

Affected version

2.12.3, 3.0 pre-releases

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