Lets have a little more detail - what do you mean by "manage a session"?? I'm assuming you have read the HttpSession JavaDocs - what do you want to do that is not covered there? Have you read the JavaDocs for the various session listeners? Bill
Use HttpServletRequest.getHeader(String) which can be used to get the cookies as a String instead of HttpServletRequest.get Cookies() whichs returns an array of Cookie class.