You need to set the Max Age of the cookie. If you don't it defaults to
going away when the browser is closed. You should also set the Path to "/"
so that it will be returned on all pages of your site.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Baker, Robert E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [JSP-INTEREST] Checking prior registration with initial JSP
page (cookies?)
> Yes, the request does exist (that's why it's in quotes), but it's not
> picking up the cookies for some reason.
>
> I know the cookies are there, because I display them for debugging
purposes
> after successful registration. Plus I verified the cookie file is in the
> "Cookies" directory. :-)
>
> Here's the code I'm using to try and display them:
>
> <%
> Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
> if (cookies != null) {
> for (int i=0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
> String name = cookies[i].getName();
> String value = cookies[i].getValue();
> out.println("Cookie : Name [" + name + "], Value [" + value +
> "]<BR>");
> }
> } else
> out.println("There are no cookies.<P>");
> %>
>
> Pretty basic code, but I always get the "There are no cookies" message
when
> I first visit this initial page.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chen, Gin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Checking prior registration with initial JSP page
> (cookies?)
>
>
> There's an error in your thinking. The response doesnt exist without the
> request. So the request does already exist. Just call getCookies on it and
> you should be fine.
> -Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baker, Robert E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Checking prior registration with initial JSP page (cookies?)
>
>
> I am working on logins/registrations using just JSP, Servlets and JDBC.
By
> default, when a user gets to the home page (JSP), they can (currently)
> either Log In or Register.
>
> Everything with registering and logging in is working perfectly fine, but
> what I would like to do is have the browser automatically forwarded to the
> login page if they are already registered. For example, if they are
already
> registered, when they browse to http://www.mysite.com/index.jsp, I want
the
> browser to automatically go to http://www.mysite.com/login.jsp instead.
>
> I can do the forwarding part of this solution with no problem, but I'm not
> sure of the best way to handle the check to see if they are already
> registered. When they create a new account, I create a cookie with the
> appropriate information in it (which also works), but the JSP can't get
> cookies from the implicit response object (I'm assuming) because the
request
> doesn't "exist" yet.
>
>
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