RE: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Robert Harper
e- > From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:16 AM > To: Tomcat Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not. > > it used to be more common to have warnings on websites that say cookies &

Re: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Mike Fowler
I think it's a good idea to try as much as possible to cater to cookieless users, differing browsers and so on as this allows you to create a single web-app that will function and look the same across a multitude of browsers. As a Mozilla user I come across site after site that takes advantage

RE: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Woodchuck
ent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:29 AM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: Re: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not. > > > > hi, > > > > this begs the question, is it bad practice to require users to > enable > > cookies? > > > &g

Re: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Mike Fowler
I tend to agree and would advocate the use of URL encoding for all stateful web-apps. However they have the drawback of making your URL look something like: http://localhost:8080/manager/html/list;jsessionid=C76172F9BD3E29A9AFDEBDA349F853DF So you use cookies for "tidy" URLs. -Mike Fowler "I cou

RE: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Robert Harper
> -Original Message- > From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:29 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not. > > hi, > > this begs the question, is it bad practice to requir

Re: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Woodchuck
hi, this begs the question, is it bad practice to require users to enable cookies? --- Mike Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben, > > I don't know of any way of checking (someone correct me if I'm > wrong!). > What I have done is to attach an attribute to the session, redirect > to a > sma

Re: Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Mike Fowler
Ben, I don't know of any way of checking (someone correct me if I'm wrong!). What I have done is to attach an attribute to the session, redirect to a small .jsp page with a tag surronding a form that automatically submits back to the servlet. The servlet can then check if the attribute is stil

Determination if a client has sessions enabled or not.

2004-06-25 Thread Ben Bookey
Dear List, I would like to check if a client has cookies/sessions enabled in the start page of my webapp. whats the best way of doing this? regards Ben - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai