Use cookies for session management

Enable cookies for session management.


Procedure

  1. Open the WebSphere Commerce configuration file.

  2. Find the Instance Properties > Session Management > cookie element.

  3. Select the appropriate session values. 

            
<cookie
        acceptance="false"
        age="-1"
        display="false"
        domain=""
        enabled="true"
        path="/" persistence="wcs"/>

      acceptance
      Set to true if he customer's browser accepts cookies for a site that only supports cookies.

      age

      domain
      Specifies a domain restriction pattern. A domain restriction pattern specifies the servers that can view a cookie. By default, cookies are only sent back to the Transaction Server that issued them. For example, if we make a request to a Transaction Server at subdomain.domain.com, then cookies that are created by that server are only visible to the server at that subdomain when the user returns to it. Specifying a domain name pattern overrides this behavior. The pattern must begin with a dot and must contain at least two dots. A pattern matches only one entry beyond the initial dot. For example, ".ibm.com" is valid and matches "a.ibm.com" and "b.ibm.com" but not "www.a.ibm.com". For details on domain patterns, see Netscape's Cookie Specification and RFC 2109.

      enabled

      path

    Option Description
    Cookie acceptance test Select this check box to check if the customer's browser accepts cookies for a site that only supports cookies.
    Cookie session manager Select whether we want WebSphere Commerce or WebSphere Application Server to manage your cookies. The default is WebSphere Commerce.

    • A WebSphere Application Server session cookie is based on the servlet HTTP session standard. WebSphere Application Server cookies persist to memory or to the database in a multinode deployment. See Session management support.

    • A WebSphere Commerce session cookie is internal to WebSphere Commerce and does not persist to the database.

  4. Save and close the file.


Related concepts
Users
Session management
Persistent sessions (Remember Me)
Personalization ID