On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Paul Wallace wrote:
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:51:31 +0700
> From: Paul Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Paul Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: cookie retrieval
>
> Hi, a have a JSP page to setup a cookie (Tomcat server):
>
> cook = new Cookie("memberCookie", userid);
> cook.setPath("c:/Program Files/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/webapps/mydir/login/");
This is not a disk "path" -- it is the server-relative part of a request
URL. For example, if your webapp is installed at context path "/myapp",
and you want cookies generated by this webapp to *only* be returned to the
same webapp, you would say cook.setPath("/myapp") as well. (This is what
Tomcat does to make sure that session id cookies only go back to the
application that sent them.
See the Cookie Specification for more info:
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt>.
> response.addCookie(cook);
> response.sendRedirect("http://myhost/somelocation/mydir/bookings/enterDate.j
> sp");
>
> and the page to retrieve the cookie (enterDate.jsp) is:
>
> Cookie cookies[] = request.getCookies();
> if(cookies != null) {
> for(int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
> if (cookies[i].getName().equals("memberCookie"));
> out.println("Welcome: " + cookies[i].getValue());
> }
> }
>
> Here's the conundrum, if the cookie is retrieved from a page that is in a
> DIFFERENT directory that setup the cookie , the output (getValue) returns
> only a sessionID ie "8455352001D0C01849A2C480576723D8" and not the required
> value. BUT, if the cookie is retrieved from a file in the SAME directory of
> setup, the desired output is obtained, plus the same JSESSIONID info. How
> may I simply obtain the value of the cookie from any directory, and not the
> session ID? I have tried using setPath (above) pointing to the setup and
> destination directories with same unwanted session ID output.
> Perhaps my syntax of setPath is the problem here? Surely I do not have
> to setup and retrieve cookies using files that are in the same directory?
>
> Thanks for all input
>
> Paul.
>
Craig
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