CookiePolicy (Java Platform SE 6) (original) (raw)

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Interface CookiePolicy

public interface CookiePolicy

CookiePolicy implementations decide which cookies should be accepted and which should be rejected. Three pre-defined policy implementations are provided, namely ACCEPT_ALL, ACCEPT_NONE and ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER.

See RFC 2965 sec. 3.3 & 7 for more detail.

Since:

1.6

Field Summary
static CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_ALL One pre-defined policy which accepts all cookies.
static CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_NONE One pre-defined policy which accepts no cookies.
static CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER One pre-defined policy which only accepts cookies from original server.

Method Summary
boolean	[shouldAccept](../../java/net/CookiePolicy.html#shouldAccept%28java.net.URI, java.net.HttpCookie%29)(URI uri,HttpCookie cookie) Will be called to see whether or not this cookie should be accepted.

Field Detail

ACCEPT_ALL

static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ALL

One pre-defined policy which accepts all cookies.

ACCEPT_NONE

static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_NONE

One pre-defined policy which accepts no cookies.

ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER

static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER

One pre-defined policy which only accepts cookies from original server.

Method Detail

shouldAccept

boolean shouldAccept(URI uri, HttpCookie cookie)

Will be called to see whether or not this cookie should be accepted.

Parameters:

uri - the URI to consult accept policy with

cookie - the HttpCookie object in question

Returns:

true if this cookie should be accepted; otherwise, false

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