I run development on Tomcat 6.0.29 and IE 8.
I need help to understand behavior of cookies. I created a new cookie and setup
maxAge to 60 seconds running script setMaxAge(60). I expected this cookie to be
persistent and to exist for 60 seconds. I ran this script to create the cookie
Cookie newCookie = new Cookie(request.getParameter("cookiename"),
request.getParameter("cookievalue"));
newCookie.setMaxAge(60);
response.addCookie(newCookie);
That is what I found:
When I display maxAge by getMaxAge, I get -1, not 60 as
I expected
Cookie was actually alive for 60 seconds (as it was
supposed to be) while a browser was opened even though getMaxAge() returned -1.
Cookie was not persistent. It means when I closed all
browsers and opened one again in less than 60 seconds, I found the cookie
disappeared. I expected the cookie to be saved on my computer and exist after
starting a browser within maximum age.
Please explain this behavior of cookie.
