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Making a Cookie Expire After a Specified Amount of Time

To specify an expiration time, you can use the setMaxTime(int) method of javax.servlet.http.Cookie. It takes as a parameter the number of seconds before the cookie will expire. For example, for a 2-minute expiration, we would do the following:

 // Create a new cookie for userID from a fictitious// method called getUserIDCookie cookie = new Cookie (

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