Fwd: Re: [Webware-discuss] Cookies

[Chuck E. <Chu...@ya...>]

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>Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 23:16:41 -0400
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>A look at Jakarta/Tomcat reveals that they switch between Expires and 
>Max-Age depending on the cookie version. This is version 3.2.1's 
>CookieTools.java:
>
>         if (cookie.getMaxAge() >= 0) {
>             if (version == 0) {
>                 buf.append (";Expires=");
>                 if (cookie.getMaxAge() == 0)
>                     DateTool.oldCookieFormat.format(new Date(10000), buf,
>                                                     new FieldPosition(0));
>                 else
>                     DateTool.oldCookieFormat.format
>                         (new Date( System.currentTimeMillis() +
>                                    cookie.getMaxAge() *1000L), buf,
>                          new FieldPosition(0));
>             } else {
>                 buf.append (";Max-Age=");
>                 buf.append (cookie.getMaxAge());
>             }
>         } else if (version == 1)
>           buf.append (";Discard");
>
>
>In 3.2.3m2 they do things a little different. The file is ServerCookie.java:
>
>         // Max-Age=secs/Discard ... or use old "Expires" format
>         if (maxAge >= 0) {
>             if (version == 0) {
>                 // XXX XXX XXX We need to send both, for
>                 // interoperatibility (long word )
>                 buf.append ("; Expires=");
>                 // Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT ( Expires netscape format )
>                 // To expire we need to set the time back in future
>                 // ( pfrieden@dChain.com )
>                 if (maxAge == 0)
>                     buf.append( ancientDate );
>                 else
>                     DateTool.oldCookieFormat.format
>                         (new Date( System.currentTimeMillis() +
>                                    maxAge *1000L), buf,
>                          new FieldPosition(0));
>
>             } else {
>                 buf.append ("; Max-Age=");
>                 buf.append (maxAge);
>             }
>         }
>
>
>Interesting, eh?
>
>
>-Chuck
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