>>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn Bayern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shawn> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Matt Raible wrote:
>> Is it possible to do the following with JSTL?
>>
>> <c:if test="${cookie.username == 'learner'}">
>> learner
>> </c:if>
Shawn> Ah, I was hoping someone would ask. The answer is "no, not exactly like
Shawn> that," but you can still use JSTL to access cookies.
Shawn> While web developers often have the urge to access a cookie by name, it's
Shawn> an urge that's best to resist; cookies aren't identified by name alone,
Shawn> but by name, domain, path, and security status. Thus, the best way to
Shawn> access a cookie is to loop over the list of available cookies, matching
Shawn> the one that you're interested in.
Shawn> Now, if you're just interested in name, that's fine; but JSTL doesn't go
Shawn> out of its way to support that special case. Instead, you can just write
Shawn> <c:forEach items="${pageContext.request.cookies}" var="cookie">
Shawn> <c:if test="${cookie.name == 'learner'}">
Shawn> <c:set var="cookieValue" value="${cookie.value}" />
Shawn> </c:if>
Shawn> </c:forEach>
Curious. Not that I would necessarily want to do this, but from the JSTL
specification, it almost seems like you could do something like this:
<x:set var="username" select="$cookie:username"/>
<c:if test="${username == 'learner'}">
So it appears that simple access to cookies is in the XML tags, but not the
core tags? Please correct me if I'm confused (likely).
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