- From: Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:15:26 +0200
- To: Karsten Boehm <boehm@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- CC: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Fixed, that will works in the next release.
Regards, Benoit.
Karsten Boehm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to set the age of the servlet session cookies to -1 (or any
> negative value) in order to prohibit the storage of the cookie by the
> client browser, since I do want the session to be invalidated when the
> client closes his browser. The jsdk 2.1 API-doc describes the desired
> behavior as follows:
>
> Description of Cookies.setMaxAge(int):
>
> ... A negative value means that the cookie is not stored persistently
> and will be deleted when the Web browser exits. A zero value causes
> the cookie to be deleted...
>
> That's exactly what I want to do and I believe the only thing that has
> to be done is to set the session cookie max-age in the Servlet
> properties to -1. But, that's exactly what I cannot do with jigadm
> (still using the old one, since I have to rely on jdk 1.x). The least
> value I can set is 0 which expires the session immmedately; that's not
> what I want.
>
> Is there any way how I can set the session cookie max-age to -1
> (manually?) or could this feature be implemented into jigadm?
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> Karsten Boehm
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Received on Tuesday, 20 July 1999 09:18:58 UTC