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  <properties>
    <title>The Cookie Processor Component</title>
  </properties>

<body>

<section name="Table of Contents">
<toc />
</section>

<section name="Introduction">

  <p>The <strong>CookieProcessor</strong> element represents the component that
  parses received cookie headers into <code>javax.servlet.http.Cookie</code>
  objects accessible through <code>HttpServletRequest.getCookies()</code> and
  converts <code>javax.servlet.http.Cookie</code> objects added to the response
  through <code>HttpServletResponse.addCookie()</code> to the HTTP headers
  returned to the client.</p>

  <p>A CookieProcessor element MAY be nested inside a
  <a href="context.html">Context</a> component. If it is not included, a default
  implementation will be created automatically.</p>

</section>


<section name="Attributes">

  <subsection name="Common Attributes">

    <p>All implementations of <strong>CookieProcessor</strong> support the
    following attributes:</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="className" required="false">
        <p>Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must
        implement the <code>org.apache.tomcat.util.http.CookieProcessor</code>
        interface. If not specified, the standard value (defined below) will be
        used.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>


  <subsection name="Standard Implementation">

    <p>The standard implementation of <strong>CookieProcessor</strong> is
    <code>org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor</code>.</p>

    <p>This cookie processor is based on RFC6265 with the following changes to
    support better interoperability:</p>

    <ul>
      <li>Values 0x80 to 0xFF are permitted in cookie-octet to support the use
      of UTF-8 in cookie values as used by HTML 5.</li>
      <li>For cookies without a value, the '=' is not required after the name as
      some browsers do not sent it.</li>
    </ul>

    <p>The RFC 6265 cookie processor is generally more lenient than the legacy
    cookie parser. In particular:</p>

    <ul>
      <li>The '<code>=</code>' and '<code>/</code>' characters are always
      permitted in a cookie value.</li>
      <li>Name only cookies are always permitted.</li>
      <li>The cookie header is always preserved.</li>
    </ul>

    <p>The <strong>RFC 6265 Cookie Processor</strong> supports the following
    additional attributes.</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="cookiesWithoutEquals" required="false">
        <p>Determines how a cookie received from a user agent should be
        interpreted when the name value pair does not contain an equals sign.
        The default value is <code>name</code> which means that the cookie will
        be treated as a cookie with a name but no value. The other option is
        <code>ignore</code> which means the cookie will be ignored. From Tomcat
        12 onwards the default will be <code>ignore</code>.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="partitioned" required="false">
       <p>Should the Partitioned flag be set on cookies? Defaults to <code>false</code>.</p>
       <p>Note: The name of the attribute used to indicate a partitioned cookie as part of
       <a href="https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/3pcd#partitioned">CHIPS</a> is not defined by an RFC and
       may change in a non-backwards compatible way once equivalent functionality is included in an RFC.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="sameSiteCookies" required="false">
        <p>Enables setting same-site cookie attribute.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>unset</code> then the same-site cookie attribute
        won't be set. This is the default value.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>none</code> then the same-site cookie attribute
        will be set and the cookie will always be sent in cross-site requests.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>lax</code> then the browser only sends the cookie
        in same-site requests and cross-site top level GET requests.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>strict</code> then the browser prevents sending the
        cookie in any cross-site request.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>

  <subsection name="Legacy Cookie Processor - org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor">

    <p>This is the legacy  cookie parser based on RFC6265, RFC2109 and RFC2616.
    It implements a strict interpretation of the cookie specifications. Due to
    various interoperability issues with browsers not all strict behaviours
    are enabled by default and additional options are available to further
    relax the behaviour of this cookie processor if required.</p>

    <attributes>

      <attribute name="allowEqualsInValue" required="false">
        <p>If this is <code>true</code> Tomcat will allow '<code>=</code>'
        characters when parsing unquoted cookie values. If <code>false</code>,
        cookie values containing '<code>=</code>' will be terminated when the
        '<code>=</code>' is encountered and the remainder of the cookie value
        will be dropped.</p>
        <p>If not set the specification compliant default value of
        <code>false</code> will be used.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="allowHttpSepsInV0" required="false">
        <p>If this is <code>true</code> Tomcat will allow HTTP separators in
        cookie names and values.</p>
        <p>If not specified, the default specification compliant value of
        <code>false</code> will be used.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="allowNameOnly" required="false">
        <p>If this is <code>true</code> Tomcat will allow name only cookies
        (with or without trailing '<code>=</code>') when parsing cookie headers.
        If <code>false</code>, name only cookies will be dropped.</p>
        <p>If not set the specification compliant default value of
        <code>false</code> will be used.</p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="alwaysAddExpires" required="false">
        <p>If this is <code>true</code> Tomcat will always add an expires
        parameter to a SetCookie header even for cookies with version greater
        than zero. This is to work around a known IE6 and IE7 bug that causes I
        to ignore the Max-Age parameter in a SetCookie header.</p>
        <p>If <code>org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE</code> is set
        to <code>true</code>, the default of this setting will be
        <code>false</code>, else the default value will be <code>true</code>.
        </p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="forwardSlashIsSeparator" required="false">
        <p>If this is <code>true</code> Tomcat will treat the forward slash
        character ('<code>/</code>') as an HTTP separator when processing cookie
        headers. If <code>org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE</code>
        is set to <code>true</code>, the default of this setting will be
        <code>true</code>, else the default value will be <code>false</code>.
        </p>
      </attribute>

      <attribute name="sameSiteCookies" required="false">
        <p>Enables setting same-site cookie attribute.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>unset</code> then the same-site cookie attribute
        won't be set. This is the default value.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>none</code> then the same-site cookie attribute
        will be set and the cookie will always be sent in cross-site requests.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>lax</code> then the browser only sends the cookie
        in same-site requests and cross-site top level GET requests.</p>

        <p>If value is <code>strict</code> then the browser prevents sending the
        cookie in any cross-site request.</p>
      </attribute>

    </attributes>

  </subsection>

</section>


<section name="Nested Components">

  <p>No element may be nested inside a <strong>CookieProcessor</strong>.</p>

</section>


<section name="Special Features">

  <p>No special features are associated with a <strong>CookieProcessor</strong>
  element.</p>

</section>

</body>

</document>
