cookies and shoping baskets

[Wendy Gibbons]

Ok i am rather a web site newbie, and looking for design patterns really

how do you write a shopping basket if cookies are turned off?

i could use url rewritting (the name from head first) but i was using cookies to get around session timeout.

[Devaka Cooray]

Wendy Gibbons wrote:i could use url rewritting (the name from head first) but i was using cookies to get around session timeout.

Session timeout depends on the HttpSession object. Even if URL rewriting is used, the HttpSession object remains accessible as the same way as how you use it when cookies are used.

Devaka

[Michael Angstadt]

You could configure the session to never timeout by setting the session-timeout to -1. Then, store the shopping cart info as session attributes.