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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 and 7 for more detail.

Author: Edward Wang
Since: 1.6

Field Summary

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
public static final CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_ALL One pre-defined policy which accepts all cookies.
public static final CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_NONE One pre-defined policy which accepts no cookies.
public static final CookiePolicy	ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER One pre-defined policy which only accepts cookies from original server.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
public boolean	Returns: `true` if this cookie should be accepted; otherwise, `false` shouldAccept(URI the URI to consult accept policy with uri, HttpCookie the HttpCookie object in question cookie) Will be called to see whether or not this cookie should be accepted.

Field Detail

ACCEPT_ALL	back to summary
public static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ALL One pre-defined policy which accepts all cookies.

ACCEPT_NONE	back to summary
public static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_NONE One pre-defined policy which accepts no cookies.

ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER	back to summary
public static final CookiePolicy ACCEPT_ORIGINAL_SERVER One pre-defined policy which only accepts cookies from original server.

Method Detail

shouldAccept back to summary

public boolean shouldAccept(URI uri, HttpCookie cookie)

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

Parameters

uri:URI: the URI to consult accept policy with
cookie:HttpCookie: the HttpCookie object in question

Returns:boolean

true if this cookie should be accepted; otherwise, false