How to create custom session and cookie in Tomcat 7/8 ?

Question

I'm trying to figure out how I can create custom session cookies. I've found the Manager interface for creating the sessions, but there's nothing about the actual session cookie. I don't see anything in the Valve interface that will let me do this either. Is this possible in Tomcat 7 (or 8?).

Answer 1

What do you mean by custom? Change the cookie name? If yes, you can do so: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/systemprops.html#Sessions

Comments

I need to be more dynamic. I need to be able to setthe session name and domain based on the url.

Answer 2

Tomcat allows you to set the cookie name already, and the domain and path depend upon the domain and path used by the webapp.

Perhaps it would be better to describe what Tomcat does *not* do that you need it to do instead?