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Servlet Cookie Setter
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import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
Cookie cookie = null;
//Get an array of Cookies associated with this domain
Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
boolean newCookie = false;
//Get the 'mycookie' Cookie if it exists
if (cookies != null){
for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++){
if (cookies[i].getName().equals("mycookie")){
cookie = cookies[i];
}
}//end for
}//end if
if (cookie == null){
newCookie=true;
//Get the cookie's Max-Age from a context-param element
//If the 'cookie-age' param is not set properly
//then set the cookie to a default of -1, 'never expires'
int maxAge;
try{
maxAge = new Integer(getServletContext().getInitParameter("cookie-age")).intValue();
} catch (Exception e) {
maxAge = -1;
}
//Create the Cookie object
cookie = new Cookie("mycookie",""+getNextCookieValue());
cookie.setPath(request.getContextPath());
cookie.setMaxAge(maxAge);
response.addCookie(cookie);
}//end if
// get some info about the cookie
response.setContentType("text/html");
java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Cookie info</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<h2> Information about the cookie named \"mycookie\"</h2>");
out.println("Cookie value: "+cookie.getValue()+"<br>");
if (newCookie){
out.println("Cookie Max-Age: "+cookie.getMaxAge()+"<br>");
out.println("Cookie Path: "+cookie.getPath()+"<br>");
}
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
out.close();
}
private long getNextCookieValue(){
/*This produces a cookie value to show how to create Cookie objects. If
this method was heavily used in a production environment it may
produce too many objects; synchronization of a single Date object
might be better, based on performance testing. At any rate a
production environment would produce a unique cookie value in a
different manner such as from a unique database ID. */
//returns the number of milleseconds since Jan 1, 1970
return new java.util.Date().getTime();
}
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
doGet(request,response);
}
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet><servlet-name>MyServletName</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>MyServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>
go
</param-name>
<param-value>
weather
</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping><servlet-name>MyServletName</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/index.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
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