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Web Technology

(KCS-602)
Unit 5
Session Tracking, Cookies

Prepared By
Sachin Kumar Sonker
Assistant Professor,UCER Naini,Allahabad
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.
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
Useful Methods of Cookie class
Other methods required for using Cookies

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
Cookie ck=new Cookie("user",“sachin");
//creating cookie object
response.addCookie(ck);
//adding cookie in the response
How to delete Cookie
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
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
}
Session Tracking in Servlets
• Session simply means a particular interval of
time.
• Session Tracking is a way to maintain state
(data) of an user. It is also known as session
management in servlet.
Session Tracking in Servlets
• Http protocol is a stateless so we need to
maintain state using session tracking
techniques.
• Each time user requests to the server, server
treats the request as the new request. So we
need to maintain the state of an user to
recognize to particular user.
• HTTP is stateless that means each request is
considered as the new request.

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