RE: getCookies at beginning of HttpSession

2007-01-11 Thread Scott Purcell
option. Scott -Original Message- From: Pierre Thibaudeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:01 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: getCookies at beginning of HttpSession Thank you, Leon! In essence, you are confirming what I have been doing until now. I

Re: getCookies at beginning of HttpSession

2007-01-11 Thread Pierre Thibaudeau
Thank you, Leon! In essence, you are confirming what I have been doing until now. I don't have a "flag" as such, but it's similar to what you suggest: I basically read the cookies and extract the relevant info that I store in the session --- setAttribute(USER_PREFS, relevantInfoFromCookies). F

Re: getCookies at beginning of HttpSession

2007-01-11 Thread Leon Rosenberg
It may sound weird, but will do the job perfectly: At first request you read the cookies and put a flag into session, that you already read them: Action (best in a base action of course): execute(HttpServlet req, HttpSession session = req.getSession(); if (session.getAttribute(MY_COOKIE

getCookies at beginning of HttpSession

2007-01-11 Thread Pierre Thibaudeau
I would like to read the cookies at the very beginning of a user's session, in order (for example) to customize the presentation according to his preferences from his previous sessions. I imagine that overriding the sessionCreated() method of an HttpSessionListener would be ideal for my purpose.