Managing cookies

On of the benefits of the HttpSession class is that cookies are managed for you automatically.  By default all cookies are accepted.

Disabling cookies

You can disable cookies using the HttpSession#setCookies method.

Example

// create new HttpSession

HttpSession session = new HttpSession();

// disable cookies

session.setAllowCookies(false);

Get cookies for a specified hostname

You can obtain cookies accepted for a specified hostname using the HttpSession#getCookiesForHost method.  This will return a java.util.Vector of cookie headers.

Example

// get cookies accepted from www.server.com

Vector v = session.getCookiesForHost("www.server.com");