Question

I have a login screen and i am authenticating users by checking credentials from database. But how can i implement Remember me check box? Like in gmail remember me(stay signed in) is present. I am using sign.jsp and Auth servlet (doPost) and oracle 10g ee for authentication.

Answer 1

You can use cookies for this purpose.

In your servlet response handler (doPost, doGet etc.) create a cookie in the following way –

if(remember_me_is_checked)
{
    Cookie c = new Cookie("userid", userId.toString());
    c.setMaxAge(24*60*60);
    response.addCookie(c);  // response is an instance of type HttpServletReponse
}

To read them, you can use something like this –

Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();     // request is an instance of type 
                                             //HttpServletRequest
boolean foundCookie = false;

for(int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++)
{ 
    Cookie c = cookies[i];
    if (c.getName().equals("userid"))
    {
        string userId= c.getValue();
        foundCookie = true;
    }
}  

Here is the official documentation for the Cookie class.