Sun's done a pretty good job of javadocing the spec.
Check it out...
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.2/javadoc/javax/servlet/http/Cookie.h
tml#setMaxAge(int)
----- Original Message -----
From: "kavitha ramasamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 9:23 AM
Subject: Cookies- max age
> Hi,
>
> In setting maximum age to cookie, I need to know the following things.
>
> 1) if cookie age is positive, then it is alive till that time
>
> 2) if a cookie age is negative, it is alive till the browser exits.
> I opened one window , I set the age to negative.
> When I am opening one more window in the same browser, if i try to list
the
> active cookies, I am not getting the cookie which I set that value to
> negative(previous window is still ,there cookie age-negative).
>
>
> I need to know if I set negative value to age, can I get that cookie value
> in the next window of the same browser if the previous window is not
> closed.
> why I am not getting the cookie which is alive?.
>
> Please help me to clear this.
> Thanks,
> kavitha.
>
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