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    This document discusses session tracking techniques in JSP, specifically the use of cookies. It explains that cookies are small pieces of information stored in the user's computer that allow servers to identify users across requests. The document provides details on creating, setting attributes of, and sending cookies in JSP. It also discusses how to read cookies from HTTP requests in JSP by getting the cookie list from the request object. Finally, it briefly introduces the JSP Application object and some of its common methods.

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    This document discusses session tracking techniques in JSP, specifically the use of cookies. It explains that cookies are small pieces of information stored in the user's computer that allow servers to identify users across requests. The document provides details on creating, setting attributes of, and sending cookies in JSP. It also discusses how to read cookies from HTTP requests in JSP by getting the cookie list from the request object. Finally, it briefly introduces the JSP Application object and some of its common methods.

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    JSP Session Tracking

     In a web application, server may be


    responding to several clients at a time.
     Hence, so session tracking is a way by
    which a server can identify the client uniquely.
     HTTP protocol is stateless which means
    client needs to open a separate connection
    every time it interacts with server and server
    treats each request as a new request.
     In order to identify the client, server needs
    to maintain the state and to do so, there are
    several session tracking techniques.

    Cookies
     small piece of information which is stored
    in user’s computer.
     The web server uses a cookie to identify
    the user in the next time visit.
     A cookie has attributes such as domain,
    path, and timeout.
     JSP provides API to allows you to work
    with cookie effectively through the object of
    the class javax.servlet.http.Cookie.
     If cookie is associated with the client
    request, server will associate it with
    corresponding user session otherwise it will
    create a new unique cookie and send it back
    with response.
     Cookie objects are can be created using a
    name value pair.
     For example, we can create a cookie with
    the name sessionId and with a unique value for
    each client.
     Later this can be added it in a response so
    that it will be sent back to the client.
     Syntax of creating Cookie in a JSP is:
    Cookie cookie = new Cookie(“sessionID”, “some
    unique value”);
    response.addCookie(cookie);

    Creating cookies
    1) Creating a Cookie object-

    Call the Cookie constructor with a cookie


    name and a cookie value, both of which are
    strings.

    2) Setting the maximum age-

    Use setMaxAge to specify how long (in


    seconds) the cookie should be valid.
    cookie.setMaxAge(3600);

    3) Sending the Cookie into the HTTP


    response headers-

    Use response.addCookie to add cookies in the


    HTTP response header.

    1. <%@page import="javax.servlet.http.Cookie"%>
    2. <html>
    3. <head>
    4. <title>JSP Create Cookie</title>
    5. </head>
    6. <body>
    7. <%
    8. Cookie cookie = new Cookie("ClientID","username");
    9. cookie.setMaxAge(3600);
    10. response.addCookie(cookie);
    11. %>
    12. </body>
    13. </html>

    Reading Cookies
     To read a cookie from an HTTP request,
    first call the method getCookies() of
    the request object.
     This method returns a list of available
    cookies in the request header, then walk
    through all of them.
    1. <%@page import="javax.servlet.http.Cookie"%>
    2. <html>
    3. <head>
    4. <title>JSP Read Cookie</title>
    5. </head>
    6. <body>
    7. <%
    8. Cookie[] list = request.getCookies();
    9. if (list != null){
    10. for (int i = 0; i < list.length;i++){
    11. out.println(list[i].getName() + ":" +
    list[i].getPath());
    12. }
    13. }
    14. %>
    15. </body>
    16. </html>

    JSP Application Object


     Application implicit object is an instance
    of javax.servlet.ServletContext.
     Used for getting initialization parameters
    and for sharing the attributes & their values
    across the entire JSP application
     Any attribute set by application implicit
    object would be available to all the JSP pages.
     The JSP Application Object is used to get
    the information from the web.xml as context-
    param tag inside init-param.
     Some of the important methods in JSP
    Application Object are:

    Methods Return Type


    getAttribute(string name) Object
    getAttributeNames() java.util.Enumeration
    getlnitparameter(string name) String
    getlnitparameterNames() java.util.Enumeration
    getRealPath(String path) string
    getServerinfo() string
    getMinorVersion() int
    getMajorVersion() int
    log(Message)() string

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