Using cookies for session management
Use the Configuration Manager to enable cookies for session management.
Procedure
- Open the Configuration Manager
- Select .
- Select the appropriate session values.
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 you 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. For more information, see Session management support.
- A WebSphere Commerce session cookie is internal to WebSphere Commerce and does not persist to the database.
- Optional:
Click the Advanced Tab. Select the
appropriate session values.
Option Description Cookie 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 WebSphere Commerce Server that issued them. For example, if you make a request to a WebSphere Commerce 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. - Click Apply.
- Close the Configuration Manager.
- Restart your WebSphere Commerce instance.