Cookie Expiration

[Ty Caine]

Hi everyone.
I'm setting a cookie with the following code:

private void setCookie(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String name, String value){
   Cookie userPrefCookie = new Cookie (name, value);
   userPrefCookie.setMaxAge(31536000);
   response.addCookie(userPrefCookie);
}

then using a loop within the body of the page to retrieve the cookie name(s) and value(s), and yet when I request the MaxAge of the cookie(s) on the page with cookies[i].getMaxAge() it comes back as -1, even though it was originally set to 31536000.

if (cookies != null){
   out.println("<!--");
   for (int i=0; i< cookies.length; i++){
      out.println("Name  = " + cookies[i].getName());
      out.println("Value = " + cookies[i].getValue());
      out.println("Age   = " + cookies[i].getMaxAge());
   }
   out.println("-->");
}

Am I being dense, or am I missing something here?
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance
T.C.
[ January 31, 2003: Message edited by: Ty Caine ]

[William Brogden]

If you are doing all this in one request, seems to me that since you are setting the cookie in the response, it won't appear until the next request.
Bill