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Cookies in Servlet: How Cookie Works

Cookies are used to maintain state between HTTP requests. They are small pieces of information stored in the browser that get sent back to the server with each request. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent cookies that expire when the browser closes, and persistent cookies that don't expire until a specified time or user logout. Cookies are created and accessed using the Cookie class in Java servlets.

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Cookies in Servlet: How Cookie Works

Cookies are used to maintain state between HTTP requests. They are small pieces of information stored in the browser that get sent back to the server with each request. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent cookies that expire when the browser closes, and persistent cookies that don't expire until a specified time or user logout. Cookies are created and accessed using the Cookie class in Java servlets.

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Cookies in Servlet

A cookie is a small piece of information that is persisted between the multiple client requests.

A cookie has a name, a single value, and optional attributes such as a comment, path and domain
qualifiers, a maximum age, and a version number.

How Cookie works


By default, each request is considered as a new request. In cookies technique, we add cookie
with response from the servlet. So cookie is stored in the cache of the browser. After that if
request is sent by the user, cookie is added with request by default. Thus, we recognize the user
as the old user.

Types of Cookie
There are 2 types of cookies in servlets.

• Non-persistent cookie
• Persistent cookie

Non-persistent cookie

It is valid for single session only. It is removed each time when user closes the browser.

Persistent cookie

It is valid for multiple session . It is not removed each time when user closes the browser. It is
removed only if user logout or signout.

Advantage of Cookies
• Simplest technique of maintaining the state.
• Cookies are maintained at client side.
Disadvantage of Cookies
• It will not work if cookie is disabled from the browser.
• Only textual information can be set in Cookie object.

Note: Gmail uses cookie technique for login. If you disable the cookie, gmail won't work.

Cookie class
javax.servlet.http.Cookie class provides the functionality of using cookies. It provides a lot of
useful methods for cookies.

Constructor of Cookie class


Constructor
Description
Cookie()
constructs a cookie.
Cookie(String name, String value)
constructs a cookie with a specified name and value.

Useful Methods of Cookie class

There are given some commonly used methods of the Cookie class.

Method
Description
public void setMaxAge(int expiry)
Sets the maximum age of the cookie in seconds.
public String getName()
Returns the name of the cookie. The name cannot be changed after creation.
public String getValue()
Returns the value of the cookie.
public void setName(String name)
changes the name of the cookie.
public void setValue(String value)
changes the value of the cookie.

Other methods required for using Cookies


For adding cookie or getting the value from the cookie, we need some methods provided by
other interfaces. They are:

• public void addCookie(Cookie ck):method of HttpServletResponse


interface is used to add cookie in response object.
• public Cookie[] getCookies():method of HttpServletRequest
interface is used to return all the cookies from the browser.

How to create Cookie?


Let's see the simple code to create cookie.

• Cookie ck=new Cookie("user","sonoo jaiswal");//creating


cookie object
• response.addCookie(ck);//adding cookie in the response

How to delete Cookie?


Let's see the simple code to delete cookie. It is mainly used to logout or
signout the user.

• Cookie ck=new Cookie("user","");//deleting value of


cookie
• ck.setMaxAge(0);//changing the maximum age to 0
seconds
• response.addCookie(ck);//adding cookie in the response

How to get Cookies?


Let's see the simple code to get all the cookies.

• Cookie ck[]=request.getCookies();
• for(int i=0;i<ck.length;i++){
• out.print("<br>"+ck[i].getName()+"
"+ck[i].getValue());//printing name and value of cookie
• }
Simple example of Servlet Cookies
In this example, we are storing the name of the user in the cookie object
and accessing it in another servlet. As we know well that session
corresponds to the particular user. So if you access it from too many
browsers with different values, you will get the different value.

index.html

• <form action="servlet1" method="post">


• Name:<input type="text" name="userName"/><br/>
• <input type="submit" value="go"/>
• </form>

FirstServlet.java

• import java.io.*;
• import javax.servlet.*;
• import javax.servlet.http.*;
•
•
• public class FirstServlet extends HttpServlet {
•
• public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response){
• try{
•
• response.setContentType("text/html");
• PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
•
• String n=request.getParameter("userName");
• out.print("Welcome "+n);
•
• Cookie ck=new Cookie("uname",n);//creating cookie
object
• response.addCookie(ck);//adding cookie in the response
•
• //creating submit button
• out.print("<form action='servlet2'>");
• out.print("<input type='submit' value='go'>");
• out.print("</form>");
•
• out.close();
•
• }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
• }
• }

SecondServlet.java

• import java.io.*;
• import javax.servlet.*;
• import javax.servlet.http.*;
•
• public class SecondServlet extends HttpServlet {
•
• public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response){
• try{
•
• response.setContentType("text/html");
• PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
•
• Cookie ck[]=request.getCookies();
• out.print("Hello "+ck[0].getValue());
•
• out.close();
•
• }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
• }
•
•
• }

web.xml
• <web-app>
•
• <servlet>
• <servlet-name>s1</servlet-name>
• <servlet-class>FirstServlet</servlet-class>
• </servlet>
•
• <servlet-mapping>
• <servlet-name>s1</servlet-name>
• <url-pattern>/servlet1</url-pattern>
• </servlet-mapping>
•
• <servlet>
• <servlet-name>s2</servlet-name>
• <servlet-class>SecondServlet</servlet-class>
• </servlet>
•
• <servlet-mapping>
• <servlet-name>s2</servlet-name>
• <url-pattern>/servlet2</url-pattern>
• </servlet-mapping>
•
• </web-app>

Output

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