diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK
index 6289e05986f1c3..87c26ff736fa7a 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ android_library(
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/bridge:bridge'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/common:common'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/modules/core:core'),
+    react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/modules/network:network'),
     react_native_dep('libraries/fbcore/src/main/java/com/facebook/common/logging:logging'),
     react_native_dep('third-party/java/infer-annotations:infer-annotations'),
     react_native_dep('third-party/java/jsr-305:jsr-305'),
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java
index 1d9d1dda124e80..3f9e76286e176d 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.WritableMap;
 import com.facebook.react.common.ReactConstants;
 import com.facebook.react.modules.core.DeviceEventManagerModule;
+import com.facebook.react.modules.network.ForwardingCookieHandler;
 
 import com.squareup.okhttp.OkHttpClient;
 import com.squareup.okhttp.Request;
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
@@ -47,10 +49,12 @@ public class WebSocketModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule {
 
   private Map<Integer, WebSocket> mWebSocketConnections = new HashMap<>();
   private ReactContext mReactContext;
+  private ForwardingCookieHandler cookieHandler;
 
   public WebSocketModule(ReactApplicationContext context) {
     super(context);
     mReactContext = context;
+    cookieHandler = new ForwardingCookieHandler(context);
   }
 
   private void sendEvent(String eventName, WritableMap params) {
@@ -78,6 +82,11 @@ public void connect(final String url, @Nullable final ReadableArray protocols, @
         .tag(id)
         .url(url);
 
+    String cookie = getCookie(url);
+    if (cookie != null) {
+      builder.addHeader("Cookie", getCookie(url));
+    }
+    
     if (headers != null) {
       ReadableMapKeySetIterator iterator = headers.keySetIterator();
 
@@ -234,4 +243,25 @@ private static String setDefaultOrigin(String uri) {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Get cookie if exists
+   *
+   * @param websocket uri
+   * @return A cookie / null
+   */
+
+  private String getCookie(String uri){
+    try {
+      Map<String, List<String>> cookieMap = cookieHandler.get(new URI(setDefaultOrigin(uri)), new HashMap());
+      List<String> cookieList = cookieMap.get("Cookie");
+      if (cookieList != null) {
+        return cookieList.get(0);
+      } else {
+        return null;
+      }
+    } catch(URISyntaxException | IOException  e) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable to get cookie from the " + uri);
+    }
+  }
+
 }