Hi !
I thought setMaxAge(0) was used to set a "transient" cookie, one that
disapears when browser is closed... If you want the cookie to expire, you'll
probably have to set it to a past date explicitely...
Bye
Christophe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:20 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: setMaxAge(0) does not work correctly
>
>
> To delete a cookie called x, the following should work:
>
> Cookie c = new Cookie("x","bla");
> c.setMaxAge(0);
> response.addCookie(c);
>
> But it doesn't. Upon inspecting the http response header that
> was actually
> generated, I found this:
>
> Set-Cookie: a=18; Path=
>
> I beleive that setMaxAge should result in a value for
> "expires" perhaps
> something like this:
>
> Set-Cookie: a=18; Expires=some_past_date; Path=
>
> Dave Ford
>
>
