It is saying that bean:cookie should be an empty tag. As you havnt closed the tag, it isnt empty!
So, should be: <bean:cookie id="validUser" name="userCookie" /> Notice the slash on the end! Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: CCNY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 September 2004 14:04 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Fwd: Checking a cookie or redirecting - best way? (Getting > ERROR, Help!) > > > So when I run the jsp below (ironically named "success.jsp") I get the > following error > > org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /pages/success.jsp(4,0) According > to TLD, tag bean:cookie must be empty, but is not > > Huh? > > I also tried <bean:cookie name="validUser"> in the JSP, sme error. > > Can anyone help? am i useing bean:cookie wrong? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:41:47 -0400 > Subject: Checking a cookie or redirecting - best way? > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > hi all > > Well now I've got this cookie that I need to check for, and if it > exists, lovely. Nothing else needs to be done. > > if NOT, I need to send the user to a specific page (/error.jsp). > > I was thinking of using <logic:present> to check for the bean, but I > dont want to wrap all my jsp code with that tag, what I really want is > something simple at the beginning that checks if the bean is there > then does a redirect if there's an error. > > should I be using a struts tag or scriptlet? > > what about if I need to include something like that in HTML (using > javascript) has anyone done that? > > Thanks > > D > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]