session management using cookies

[Grishma Dube]

Hi All,

I came across to this question during one of the interviews.

How do we manage a session with cookies in servlet, if suppose we dont want to use a cookie class? is it possible?

TAI

Grishma

[smitha verghese]

Hi there r diff ways to maintain sessions

1. hidden fields
2. url appending
3. Session objects
4. Cookies

smitha

[Grishma Dube]

Thanks Smitha, but i know the ways of tracking a session.

Pls read my question carefully. I said, how do i manage a session using cookies but without making use of Cookie class?

Grishma

[William Brogden]

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

[Rovas Kram]

Maybe the interviewer is looking for:

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.