Cookie getMaxAge

Question

I can\'t retrieve cookie maxage it always returns -1

Creating cookie:

Cookie securityCookie = new Cookie(\"sec\", \"somevalue\");
securityCookie.setMaxAg         


        

Answer 1

The value may be modified by the browser.

You create a cookie and want to set a max age. The cookie is sent to the browser. The browser may reject the cookie or ignore a max age too long for its policy. This modified cookie is sent back to your application.

Check your browser settings.