Hi,
Does anybody know why req.getCookies() returns a zero length array?
ie. Cookies ck[] = req.getCookies();
ck.length == 0 !!
I am trying to list the cookies in a HttpServletRequest.
If there are no cookies present, shouldnt it return null?
--Olu E.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emuleomo, Olu (PME) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 3:40 PM
> To: 'A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
> API Technology.'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: A bug in the session API?
>
> Hi,
>
> I believe this may be a bug in the session api.
> req.getSession(true)
>
> creates a cookie with name "session", value = [SIW3DZIAAAAAFET3MEFAAAA]
> but the domain is NULL and the path is NULL.
> Now, this is not a problem if you dont have cookies with the domain of
> your
> server
> (the server that generated the cookie) already stored in your cookies
> file.
> However, if you do, the user agent i.e. Netscape/IE does not send the
> cooie
> called
> "session" to your servler, so the servlet ALWAYS THINKS YOU DONT HAVE A
> SESSION
> and creates a new one!
>
> Sun staff, can you verify this? I believe this may be a bug since I expect
> the domain to be ".foo.com" or
> something along those lines, but NOT null.
>
> --Olu E.
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