I don't think the WOContext and therefore the WORequest is set during the
constructor of a page. And since they are not set, cookieValueForKey will
not be able to see the values in the WORequest.
You should probably use something else like awake or takeValuesFromRequest,
etc.
-dave
Endre Meckelborg Rognerud wrote:
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>
> > At 02:21 PM 3/3/99 +0100, you wrote:
> > >When I work inside my application (in the frame), then the cookie is
> > >returned, but when I push a button on the toolbar and Main in my
> > >application is called with a clean URL, I try to get the cookie from
> > >the request-object. This only returns null. This is my problem,
> > >because I use this to check if the user is logged in.
> >
> > So the url in frame one is something like
> > http://domain/cgi-bin/WebObjects.exe/YourApp.woa
> > ?
>
> Yeah, this is right. My application is called with this URL and the
> Main component is to be shown.
>
> > In which case, you're not checking for the request object in
> > invokeActionForRequest or takeValuesFromRequest are you?
> > Those methods don't get called when there's no real request, like when
> > you're returning the default page on session startup...
>
> In the constructor of Main I check for the cookie if the user is not
> logged in. In the constuctor I do something like this:
>
> cookie = context().request().cookieValueForKey("grunnoppl_it");
>
> When I do this (in the constructor of Main), the method returns null
> even if a cookie is set. If I write in the URL myself, and the
> application runs in the whole browser, the cookie is returned. But
> when I call it by pushing the button in the toolbar, only null is
> returned.
>
> Any advice??
>
> Thanks again!!
> Endre
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