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Interface CookiePolicy

public interface CookiePolicy

CookiePolicy has three pre-defined policy. They are ACCEPT_ALL, ACCEPT_NONE and ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER respectively. They are used to decide which cookies should be accepted and which should not be. See RFC 2965 sections 3.3 and 7 for more detail.

Since:

1.6

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_ALL A pre-defined policy, accepts all cookies.
static CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_NONE A pre-defined policy, accepts no cookies at all.
static CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER A pre-defined policy, only accepts cookies from original server.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	shouldAccept(URI uri, HttpCookie cookie) This method is used to determine whether or not the specified cookie should be accepted.

Field Detail

ACCEPT_ALL

static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ALL

A pre-defined policy, accepts all cookies.

ACCEPT_NONE

static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_NONE

A pre-defined policy, accepts no cookies at all.

ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER

static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER

A pre-defined policy, only accepts cookies from original server.

Method Detail

shouldAccept

boolean shouldAccept(URI uri,
                     HttpCookie cookie)

This method is used to determine whether or not the specified cookie should be accepted.

Parameters:

uri - the URI to used to determine acceptability

cookie - the HttpCookie to be determined

Returns:

true if this cookie should be accepted; false otherwise