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. The problem is that the sessionCreated() method provides only an HttpSessionEvent (corresponding to the creation of the session). What I need is to access an HttpRequest in order to getCookies(). Surely if the session was created, some HttpRequest must have been issued in the first place, but how do I get hold of this request? Maybe my problem is that I am not looking at the appropriate Listener. But I would rather not listen to every single request when I only need to read cookies once at the beginning of a session! Suggestions?
