Sunday, February 9, 2014

Remove cookie.



To remove cookie from server one need to set its expiry time to current time.

e.g. J2EE container one can remove the cookie in following way

HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) servletResponse;
Cookie cookie = new Cookie("cookie-key", "");
.... set all the other attributes same as that of existing cookie, like path and domain.  
cookie.setMaxAge(0);
response.addCookie(cookie);

setting max age of cookie to '0' I am setting its expiry to current machine time.

JavaScript

document.cookie = "username=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT";

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