CookieHandler
Class CookieHandler
- java.lang.Object
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- java.net.CookieHandler
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- CookieManager
public abstract class CookieHandler extends Object
A CookieHandler object provides a callback mechanism to hook up a HTTP state management policy implementation into the HTTP protocol handler. The HTTP state management mechanism specifies a way to create a stateful session with HTTP requests and responses.
A system-wide CookieHandler that to used by the HTTP protocol handler can be registered by doing a CookieHandler.setDefault(CookieHandler). The currently registered CookieHandler can be retrieved by calling CookieHandler.getDefault(). For more information on HTTP state management
