Some method must exist to give the cookie an expiry date like other server side
scripting languages like PHP (setcookie("userad", $row[4],
time()+3600*24*365*10, "/"); --> gives the cookie 1 year life) I think Java can
do better than that using a simple method.
So setMaxAge(int expiry); could be used for this.
"Christopher K. St. John" wrote:
> Bhushan Bhangale wrote:
> >
> > maximum limit of integer makes the cookie persistent
> > for only 25 days, because the parameter to this method
> > is in millisecond.
> >
>
> The servlet spec is available at:
>
> <URL:http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html>
>
> From the 2.1 spec:
>
> public void setMaxAge(int expiry);
>
> ... The cookie will expire after the given
> number of seconds have passed. Negative values
> will ensure that the cookie will not persist on
> the client. A zero value causes the cookie to be
> deleted from the client.
>
> Do you have an older container? Or have some other
> reason to believe that your servlet container uses ms
> instead of seconds? In the worst case, you could
> bypass the cookie routines and just add the cookie
> header manually.
>
> -cks
>
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