How to Access Cookies in JSP Expression Language

Below snippet is just for your reference. We can print a cookie value on JSP page using JSP Expression language.

The standard syntax to access Http Cookie value in JSP is:


${cookie.<cookie name>.value}

So if you want to print value of cookie named “foo” on JSP page, you might wanna write something like:


${cookie.foo.value}

In previous tutorial How to access Cookies in Spring MVC, I used JSP expression language to print value of hitCounter cookie.

Display List of All Cookies in JSP

In JSP expression language ${cookie} gives a list of all cookies set for current webpage. This list can be iterated using JSTL <c:forEach> to print each cookie. Here is a small JSTL code snippet that prints list of all cookies for current page.


<h3>List of all the available Cookies</h3>
        <ul>
        <c:forEach var="cookies" items="${cookie}">
        <li>
                <c:out value="${cookies.key}"/>: 
                        Object=<c:out value="${cookies.value}"/>, 
                        value=<c:out value="${cookies.value.value}"/>
        </li>
        </c:forEach>
        </ul>

Once you run this code, you’ll see list of all http cookies for given page as below.