We recently came across a situation where we wanted to load web documents into GATE direct from a remote URL. Whilst this is supported out of the box in GATE the specific website required us to handle cookies to access the files. We found an easy way of adding support for this to GATE (including existing released versions). If this is something you need then we've written it up as a short blog post: https://gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2022/03/gate-and-cookie-jar.html

Mark