Re: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread Martin Gainty
ge without making a copy. Thank you. - Original Message - From: "Mike Peremsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:48 AM Subject: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie I am pretty new to cookies and am having an issue. I create a cookie in my s

Re: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Peremsky
Ding! Thanks to all who repsonded. I had already implemented all that everyone else had suggested, but the one item I overlooked was resetting the path in the remove method of my cookie class to match when it was created. Thanks you for making my friday A LOT brighter! Torgeir Veimo

Re: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 1 Jun 2007, at 14:48, Mike Peremsky wrote: I am pretty new to cookies and am having an issue. I create a cookie in my servlet and write it to the response to last the lifetime of the session (duration = -1). When the user clicks the logout button I find the cookie, reset the duration to

Re: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread ben short
Hi, To delete a cookie you have to set its max age to 0. Calling invalidate on the httpsession will delete the cookie that holds the session id, wont it? request.getSession().invalidate() Ben On 6/1/07, Tim Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is nothing in the servelt api to explicitly del

Re: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread Tim Funk
Most likely you are using a JSP and unless you have page session='false' - a session (and new cookie of the same name) will be created on the next request. -Tim Mike Peremsky wrote: Yes, but why is it not being deleted when I get the cookie (request.getCookies()), then reset the duration to

Re: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Peremsky
Yes, but why is it not being deleted when I get the cookie (request.getCookies()), then reset the duration to 0 (cookie.setMaxAge(0)) and re-add it to the response (response.addCookie(cookie)) Tim Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is nothing in the servelt api to explicitly delete the ses

Re: Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread Tim Funk
There is nothing in the servelt api to explicitly delete the session cookie. -Tim Mike Peremsky wrote: I am pretty new to cookies and am having an issue. I create a cookie in my servlet and write it to the response to last the lifetime of the session (duration = -1). When the user clicks the

Cookie Rookie - cannot delete session cookie

2007-06-01 Thread Mike Peremsky
I am pretty new to cookies and am having an issue. I create a cookie in my servlet and write it to the response to last the lifetime of the session (duration = -1). When the user clicks the logout button I find the cookie, reset the duration to 0 then re-add the cookie to the response. But when