I don't believe that the ALL USERS profile stores cookies - it is intended more
as a template. My only idea for accomplishing what you want to do would be to
track machines by IP (in a static environment) on the server side, and doing a
lookup during the first phase of each session...
Dave
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>I'm not sure I really understand what you want to do, but here's a
>quick thought: if you have the concept of a "logon" process, you may
>create a "Logon" servlet that automatically creates a cookie with
>whatever default value you want and adds it to the response object for
>that session. This way every user who comes in through the "Logon"
>servlet will get the default cookie. You can have the cookie expire
>at the end of the browser session (that's the default), or you can set
>it's expiration date (with cookie.setMaxAge(seconds) method), thus
>making it a somewhat persistent cookie. From here on, any subsequent
>servlets could check the cookie and act accordingly. I would
>recommend that you check the "session" posibility, where you can store
>Java objects in a session object that gets passed along between
>servlets, thus making communication between servlets pretty easy.
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>Rob Jago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/05/99 07:51:26 AM
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>Hello
> I was wondering if anyone has dealt with or knows where I can
>find
>the information for the following.
>
> Our web application , using java, servlets, and JSP would
>like
>to store a cookie on a NT machine which uses IE. I believe that the
>cookie
>is stored on a per (logged in ) user to the NT machine. Is it
>possible to
>put a default cookie value in the ALL USERS profile so that every
>logged
>in user will get the same information based on the data in the cookie
>and
>how does this apply to the coding of the cookie putting of the
>servlets?
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>any help, comments, or directions would be muchly appreciated?
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>Rob Jago
>Programmer Analyst
>Ottawa
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