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title: "How do you delete a Cookie within a JSP?"  
description: "How do you delete a Cookie within a JSP?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-05-21  
updated: 2020-09-16  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/995/how-do-you-delete-a-cookie-within-a-jsp  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How do you delete a Cookie within a JSP?

We can create a cookie in jsp by using following code snippet

```
Cookie cook1= new Cookie("name","value");
response.addCookie(cook1);
```

We can delete cookie using following code snippet

```
Cookie killmycook = new Cookie("cook1","value");
killmycook.setMaxAge(0);
killmycook.setPath("/");
killmycook.addCookie(killmycook);
```

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

We can create a cookie in jsp by using following code snippet

```
Cookie cook1= new Cookie("name","value");
response.addCookie(cook1);
```

We can delete cookie using following code snippet

```
Cookie killmycook = new Cookie("cook1","value");
killmycook.setMaxAge(0);
killmycook.setPath("/");
killmycook.addCookie(killmycook);
```


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