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How to Read Client-Side Cookies From a Servlet

Reading cookies from a servlet is easy. You can gain access to any cookies sent by the browser from the javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest passed to the servlet’s doGet, doPost, etc methods. HttpServletResponse offers a method, and Cookies[] getCookies() returns an array of Cookie objects.

 // Check for cookiesCookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();// Check to see if any cookies existsif (cookies != null){	for (int i =0; i< cookies.length; i++)	{		Cookie aCookie = cookies[i];		System.out.println (

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