On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> >>> Naveen Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08-Sep-00 12:33:35 AM >>>
>
> >I could set the domain explicitly and add the cookie
> >to my response Object but when I retrive the domain
> >using getDomain() method of Cookie object using
> >getCookies() method with request object I always get
> >null value.
>
> Hmmm... looks like it *might* be a bug.
>
> (this shows how often people use cookies for anything other than
> sessions - I have *never* heard of this before!)
>
> When you first create the cookie can you get the domain then?
>
> It could be that the browser isn't sending the domain part of the
> cookie to the servlet engine. You could check that by looking at the
> request as it comes (with a packet sniffer) in or by retrieving the
> header like so:
>
> public void doGet(....
> {
> String cookies=request.getHeader("Set-Cookie");
> System.out.println(cookies);
> }
>
> It should be very clear if the domain is being transmitted to the
> server.
Actually, I believe it is not, and that may be the problem here. I
seem to recall from Jason Hunter's book (which I don't have handy, so
I can't verify) that only a limited subset of the available
information about cookies is available to the server.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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