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Sibir
Sibir

Reputation: 333

What is the default expiry period of a cookie?

I am working on jsp and came across "cookies". I am aware of the functions related to getting, setting or checking cookies and also the expiry period setting is clear to me. But just for the knowledge point of view, I wanted to know if there is any default expiry period for a cookie, in case i don't set it manually? I tried Google, but could find absolutely no answers for this particular part. I will really appreciate if anyone can throw some light on it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4709

Answers (2)

psd
psd

Reputation: 23

The default lifetime of a cookie set in a JSP page is the current browsing session only. Once you restart the browser,the cookie no longer exists.

Upvotes: 2

Santino 'Sonny' Corleone
Santino 'Sonny' Corleone

Reputation: 1753

The default Expires value for a cookie is not a static time, but it creates a Session cookie. This will stay active until the user closes their browser/clears their cookies. You can override this as required.

Check this link(it isnt jsp but will help you)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.cookie.expires%28VS.80%29.aspx

Setting the Expires property to MinValue makes this a session Cookie, which is its default value

Check this tutorial on cookies

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jsp/jsp_cookies_handling.htm

This will surely help you

Upvotes: 0

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