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Is there a problem with calling Response.sendRedirect() after Response.addCookie() ?

Created May 4, 2012

Alex Chaffee

Yes, there is a bug in Tomcat 3.1 (and possibly other servlet engines). To send a cookie through a redirect, you must set the headers manually. seanm@narus.com suggests: 

        Cookie long_term = new Cookie(LONG_TERM_COOKIE_NAME, user_name);
        long_term.setMaxAge(60*60*24*4);
        long_term.setPath("/Blah");
        response.addCookie(long_term);

        response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY);
        response.setHeader("Location",REDIRECT_PAGE);