Sun Microsystems 5.1.1 - Manual (Page 9)

Chapter 1 Section 1.2
Introducing the HTTPS eWay About the HTTPS eWay
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Cookie Expiration Date Checking
The HTTPS eWay checks time-limited cookies with expiration dates to ensure that they
have not expired. If they have expired, the cookie is removed and is not resent to the
originating server. As a result, the session state is removed.
The following standard expiration date formats are recognized by the HTTPS eWay:
"Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT" ;RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
"Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT";RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036
"Sunday, 06-Nov-1994 08:49:37 GMT";RFC 1036
"Sun Nov
6 08:49:37 1994" ;ANSI C's asctime()
If the expiration date is in another format, the eWay does not recognize the expiration
date. Instead, it treats the cookie as if it does not have an expiration date.
1.2.3
GET and POST Methods
The GET method can be used in client mode to retrieve a page specified by the URL or
to retrieve information from a form-based Web page by submitting URL-encoded key
and name value pairs. In the latter case, the page must support the GET method.
The following example shows a URL-encoded query string:
http://.../bin/query?p=seebeyond+integrator
The URL specifies the search page and the name-value pair for the search. The question
mark (?) indicates the beginning of the name-value pair encoding. In the previous
example, the name portion of the query is “p,” and the value to search is “seebeyond
integrator.” A query can consist of one or more of these name-value pairs.
Note: See the official HTTP Specification for complete information.
The POST method is more versatile, in that it supports form-based requests, as well as
sending large amounts of data. The POST method does not have the size-limitation
maximum of 255 or 1024 characters (depending on the Web server), which the GET
method has. As with GET, the Web page must support the POST method in order to
use POST.
Taking the previous URL as an example, if you specify the following URL:
http:// ... /bin/query
Then, you can specify the name-value pair separately. The HTTP client allows for the
specification of the URL and n-number of value pairs via its methods.
1.2.4
Sample HTTP Exchange in Client Mode
To retrieve the file at the following URL:
http://www.myhost.com/path/file.html
First open a socket to the host www.myhost.com, port 80 (use the default port of 80
because none is specified in the URL). You can then send a request through a socket that
looks like the following example: