diff --git a/lib/capybara/driver/webkit.rb b/lib/capybara/driver/webkit.rb
index 48373f5a..f897ab65 100644
--- a/lib/capybara/driver/webkit.rb
+++ b/lib/capybara/driver/webkit.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 require "capybara/driver/webkit/node"
 require "capybara/driver/webkit/browser"
 require "capybara/driver/webkit/socket_debugger"
+require "capybara/driver/webkit/cookie_jar"
 
 class Capybara::Driver::Webkit
   class WebkitInvalidResponseError < StandardError
@@ -104,6 +105,10 @@ def server_port
     @rack_server.port
   end
 
+  def cookies
+    @cookie_jar ||= CookieJar.new(browser)
+  end
+
   private
 
   def url(path)
diff --git a/lib/capybara/driver/webkit/cookie_jar.rb b/lib/capybara/driver/webkit/cookie_jar.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c83e7d1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/capybara/driver/webkit/cookie_jar.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+require 'webrick'
+
+# A simple cookie jar implementation.
+# Does not take special cookie attributes
+# into account like expire, max-age, httponly, secure
+class Capybara::Driver::Webkit::CookieJar
+  attr_reader :browser
+
+  def initialize(browser)
+    @browser = browser
+  end
+
+  def [](*args)
+    cookie = find(*args)
+    cookie && cookie.value
+  end
+
+  def find(name, domain = nil, path = "/")
+    # we are sorting by path size because more specific paths take
+    # precendence
+    cookies.sort_by { |c| -c.path.size }.find { |c|
+      c.name.downcase == name.downcase &&
+      (!domain || valid_domain?(c, domain)) &&
+      (!path   || valid_path?(c, path))
+    }
+  end
+
+ protected
+
+  def valid_domain?(cookie, domain)
+    ends_with?(("." + domain).downcase,
+               normalize_domain(cookie.domain).downcase)
+  end
+
+  def normalize_domain(domain)
+    domain = "." + domain unless domain[0,1] == "."
+    domain
+  end
+
+  def valid_path?(cookie, path)
+    starts_with?(path, cookie.path)
+  end
+
+  def ends_with?(str, suffix)
+    str[-suffix.size..-1] == suffix
+  end
+
+  def starts_with?(str, prefix)
+    str[0, prefix.size] == prefix
+  end
+
+  def cookies
+    browser.get_cookies.map { |c| WEBrick::Cookie.parse_set_cookie(c) }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/cookie_jar_spec.rb b/spec/cookie_jar_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c9907cb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/cookie_jar_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+require 'capybara/driver/webkit/cookie_jar'
+
+describe Capybara::Driver::Webkit::CookieJar do
+  let(:browser) {
+    browser = double("Browser")
+    browser.stub(:get_cookies) { [
+        "cookie1=1; domain=.example.org; path=/",
+        "cookie1=2; domain=.example.org; path=/dir1/",
+        "cookie1=3; domain=.facebook.com; path=/",
+        "cookie2=4; domain=.sub1.example.org; path=/",
+      ] }
+    browser
+  }
+
+  subject { Capybara::Driver::Webkit::CookieJar.new(browser) }
+
+  describe "#find" do
+    it "returns a cookie object" do
+      subject.find("cookie1", "www.facebook.com").domain.should == ".facebook.com"
+    end
+
+    it "returns the right cookie for every given domain/path" do
+      subject.find("cookie1", "example.org").value.should == "1"
+      subject.find("cookie1", "www.facebook.com").value.should == "3"
+      subject.find("cookie2", "sub1.example.org").value.should == "4"
+    end
+
+    it "does not return a cookie from other domain" do
+      subject.find("cookie2", "www.example.org").should == nil
+    end
+
+    it "respects path precedence rules" do
+      subject.find("cookie1", "www.example.org").value.should == "1"
+      subject.find("cookie1", "www.example.org", "/dir1/123").value.should == "2"
+    end
+  end
+
+  describe "#[]" do
+    it "returns the first matching cookie's value" do
+      subject["cookie1", "example.org"].should == "1"
+    end
+
+    it "returns nil if no cookie is found" do
+      subject["notexisting"].should == nil
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/driver_spec.rb b/spec/driver_spec.rb
index 7ffaee7e..b0c18a9e 100644
--- a/spec/driver_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/driver_spec.rb
@@ -947,6 +947,10 @@ def echoed_cookie
       cookie["domain"].should include "127.0.0.1"
       cookie["path"].should == "/"
     end
+
+    it "allows reading access to cookies using a nice syntax" do
+      subject.cookies["cookie"].should == "abc"
+    end
   end
 
   context "with socket debugger" do