@GetMapping("/greeting") public String greeting(HttpSession session, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, @RequestParam(name="name", required=false, defaultValue="World") String name, Model model) { model.addAttribute("name", name); System.out.println(session); System.out.println(request); for (Cookie cookie : request.getCookies()) { System.out.println(cookie.getName() + " " + cookie.getValue()); } Cookie uiColorCookie = new Cookie("color2", "red2"); uiColorCookie.setDomain("localhost"); uiColorCookie.setPath("/"); response.addCookie(uiColorCookie); return "greeting"; }
the code of the 2 applications is:
https://github.com/vernetto/demosession01
https://github.com/vernetto/demosession02
http://localhost:8181/books01/greeting?name=pirla
http://localhost:8282/books02/greeting?name=pirla
In Firefox, use F12 and "storage" to examine cookies.
Using embedded Tomcat, the session turns out to be:
org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/api/org/apache/catalina/session/StandardSessionFacade.html