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From: "Pratik Machchar" <pratik@elitecore.com>
To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Cookie problem max age problem
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:53:52 +0530
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kief Morris" <kief@bitBull.com>
To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Cookie problem max age problem


> Pratik Machchar typed the following on 05:57 PM 12/5/2000 +0530
> >I set a cookie with certain maxAge() say 200.
> >now on logout I wan't to remove that cookie I set  maxAge(0) then also
this
> >cookis is not removed
>
> Are you getting the cookie with request.getCookies() and changing its
> maxAge, or creating a new cookie with the same name? I seem to recall
> having a problem with IE when doing it the second way, but doing it
> the first way worked.
>

I tried both the ways same problem continues
Any other solution.


> >Actually when I see that cookie on other page through
request.getCookies();
> >I can get that cookie but when I try to see cookie.getMaxAge() it
returns -1
>
> There's no way for Tomcat to know what the max age was on cookies
> it gets from the request: The Cookie: header in the HTTP request doesn't
> contain this information, it only sends the name and value. The browser
> keeps track of the expiration and simply stops sending the Cookie:
> header after it passes.

    Thanks for clearing above point

> Kief
>
Thanks again
Pratik