diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs
index 7039e34a1..79a2dc38b 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs
@@ -176,6 +176,45 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Test.Http
 
             response.Resource.Headers.Should().NotContainKey("Cookie");
         }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void should_not_store_response_cookie()
+        {
+            var requestSet = new HttpRequest("http://eu.httpbin.org/cookies/set?my=cookie");
+            requestSet.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
+
+            var responseSet = Subject.Get(requestSet);
+
+            var request = new HttpRequest("http://eu.httpbin.org/get");
+
+            var response = Subject.Get<HttpBinResource>(request);
+
+            response.Resource.Headers.Should().NotContainKey("Cookie");
+
+            ExceptionVerification.IgnoreErrors();
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void should_store_response_cookie()
+        {
+            var requestSet = new HttpRequest("http://eu.httpbin.org/cookies/set?my=cookie");
+            requestSet.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
+            requestSet.StoreResponseCookie = true;
+
+            var responseSet = Subject.Get(requestSet);
+
+            var request = new HttpRequest("http://eu.httpbin.org/get");
+
+            var response = Subject.Get<HttpBinResource>(request);
+
+            response.Resource.Headers.Should().ContainKey("Cookie");
+
+            var cookie = response.Resource.Headers["Cookie"].ToString();
+
+            cookie.Should().Contain("my=cookie");
+
+            ExceptionVerification.IgnoreErrors();
+        }
     }
 
     public class HttpBinResource
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs
index 9f88541b1..56c495c0c 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http
             webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = request.AllowAutoRedirect;
             webRequest.ContentLength = 0;
 
-            webRequest.CookieContainer = _cookieContainerCache.Get("container", () => new CookieContainer());
-
             if (!RuntimeInfoBase.IsProduction)
             {
                 webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
@@ -66,17 +64,29 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http
                 AddRequestHeaders(webRequest, request.Headers);
             }
 
+            var cookieContainer = _cookieContainerCache.Get("container", () => new CookieContainer());
+
             if (request.Cookies.Count != 0)
             {
                 foreach (var pair in request.Cookies)
                 {
-                    webRequest.CookieContainer.Add(new Cookie(pair.Key, pair.Value, "/", request.Url.Host)
+                    cookieContainer.Add(new Cookie(pair.Key, pair.Value, "/", request.Url.Host)
                     {
                         Expires = DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(1)
                     });
                 }
             }
 
+            if (request.StoreResponseCookie)
+            {
+                webRequest.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                webRequest.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
+                webRequest.CookieContainer.Add(cookieContainer.GetCookies(request.Url));
+            }
+
             if (!request.Body.IsNullOrWhiteSpace())
             {
                 var bytes = request.Headers.GetEncodingFromContentType().GetBytes(request.Body.ToCharArray());
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs
index 787fab2d8..f71e3f473 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http
         public bool SuppressHttpError { get; set; }
         public bool AllowAutoRedirect { get; set; }
         public Dictionary<string, string> Cookies { get; private set; }
+        public bool StoreResponseCookie { get; set; }
 
         public override string ToString()
         {
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Core.Test/IndexerTests/BitMeTvTests/BitMeTVFixture.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Core.Test/IndexerTests/BitMeTvTests/BitMeTVFixture.cs
index 2d6c93e29..af7320c9f 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Core.Test/IndexerTests/BitMeTvTests/BitMeTVFixture.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Core.Test/IndexerTests/BitMeTvTests/BitMeTVFixture.cs
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Test.IndexerTests.BitMeTvTests
         public void should_parse_recent_feed_from_BitMeTv()
         {
             var recentFeed = ReadAllText(@"Files/RSS/BitMeTv.xml");
-            
-               
+
             Mocker.GetMock<IHttpClient>()
                 .Setup(o => o.Execute(It.Is<HttpRequest>(v => v.Method == HttpMethod.GET)))
                 .Returns<HttpRequest>(r => new HttpResponse(r, new HttpHeader(), recentFeed));