Regis,
We've used the cookie feature in both Jetty and Tomcat (version 5.5.23).
While testing, we found that if the cookie information was not set
correctly, then the cookies would not be sent back to the server because
of browser security implementations. Here are some things which
prevented us from getting cookies...and we subsequently had to set them
when we created the cookie:
1. The cookie Path attribute wasn't set correctly, or wasn't set at all.
If this is not set, then the cookie will not be returned on subsequent
requests because the paths do not match. When we created client-side
cookies with javascript, we noticed that no Path attribute was set. Once
we did that it worked. You can set it to a specific relative path within
your URL structure..or you can set it to / for all URLs going to your
restlet code.
2. The cookie Domain attribute wasn't set correctly, or wasn't set at
all. This might not be the problem you are encountering, but if you try
to access data across subdomains from your browser it won't pass the
cookies around unless the domain is set to .mydomain.com where
mydomain.com is your base domain. Notice the dot . in front of the
domain name.
Also...have you tried to debug your restlet app and inspect the Request
object coming in? You can drill down into the actual headers that are
coming from your client to see if the Cookie header is even set with the
appropriate values..
Mitch
From: Regis Leray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:34 PM
To: discuss@restlet.tigris.org
Subject: Re: get and send Cookie not working
I did what you said i download the extensions for firefox, so it seems
the restlet filter send back a cookie to my browser. I m not at my
office desk so i cannot show you the message, but i will on monday, but
the cookie it is send.
Could you tell me if some issue exist with firefox or IE ??
I said a mistake, i can't get any cookie from the request
(request.getCookies()) but the function doesn't return a null list but a
empty list, even i have some cookies which exists
I will post the reponse on monday the reponse i get with http header
extension...
Somebody test the cookie feature in a tomcat container ??? (developper ,
user )
Thanks for the reply.
Regis
2007/8/17, Alex Milowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 8/17/07, Regis Leray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
private Cookie hasCookie(Request request) {
ListCookie cookies = request.getCookies (); //always
NULL
The getCookies() call should not return a null value.
snip/
About my environment all of this it is run in a tomcat
container, and i use
the restlet version 1.0.4.
There could be an environment issue. Have you tried running
your application
outside of Tomcat using the Simple or Jetty connectors?
Have you checked the return headers using the LiveHttpHeaders
[1] or
my Poster [2]
extension for Firefox to see if the Set-Cookie header is there?
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691
--Alex Milowski
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