Garey-

Unfortunately that wont work if your Browser disallows cookies
If its IE 
Check out the IE options-

Tools
Internet Options
Privacy
Advanced
look at "switched on Always allow Session Cookies"

HTH,

Martin --
*********************************************************************
This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidential
information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is
addressed.  If you have received this email message in error, please notify
the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original
message without making a copy.  Thank you.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garey Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: How does Tomcat detect whether a browser accepts cookies


> Leon -
> 
> Thank you for your response, but I don't understand it. I have a
> key question: 
> 
> how does Tomcat detect that a browser does not accept cookies?
> 
> 
> There are a number of different ways to detect it inside my
> application, but all of them seem to need a roundtrip to the browser. If,
> as I suspect, Tomcat can tell without the redirect, I would like to use
> Tomcat's knowledge. If Tomcat uses a roundtrip, I would still like to use
> Tomcat's knowledge, so that I don't have to duplicate the work inside my
> app.
> 
> Garey Mills
> Library Systems Office
> UC Berkeley
> 
> The brain is not where you think
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
> 
>> You could check for your cookie in first request and if not present
>> just set the cookie in the  request and redirect to another page which
>> reads  the cookie (btw, it can also be done with javascript without
>> user-visible-reload). The difference to your approach that each user
>> will be redirected exactly once, since you are checking for your
>> cookie in first request and it should remain persistent for next
>> visits.
>> 
>> regards
>> Leon
>> 
>> On 6/21/06, Garey Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi -
>> >
>> >         I have an application that does not work correctly when the
>> > browser does not accept cookies. I added some code that rewrites the query
>> > string the first time the app is entered to include a new parameter and
>> > then redirects to the app. I watch for that parameter and if I find it I
>> > check whether the session id is from a cookie. If it isn't I put up a
>> > "Sorry, you need cookies message" and exit.
>> >
>> >         This solution is not optimal, since I am seeing a blank page the
>> > first time I try to get into the application.
>> >
>> >         So my question is: Tomcat must ascertain whether the browser
>> > accepts cookies in order to decide whether to use cookies or URL
>> > rewriting. How does it do it? and can I check Tomcat to find out, too?
>> >
>> > Garey Mills
>> > Library Systems Office
>> > UC Berkeley
>> >
>> > The brain is not where you think
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org
>> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>

Reply via email to