Help with Cookies

[Jeffery Brewer]

I'm trying to get the value of a cookie using tags and I'm just don't 
get it. (part of the problem is I just don't seem to be able to get my 
head around the way tags work...but that's a problem for another time) 
I've been through the spec several times and thought I was onto 
something in appendix A6 where it talks about cookies as "Implicit 
Objects", but no dice.

I can do it in java code, just not in tags. here's where I'm at with 
the java code, maybe some patient, kind-hearted, "suffers fools gladly" 
tag wiz can help nudge me back on the path to enlightenment.

<%
    boolean hasTakenSurvey = false;
    Cookie[] cookieList = request.getCookies();
    for (int i = 0;i<cookieList.length;i++) {
        Cookie myCookie = cookieList[i];
        out.println(myCookie.getName() + " = " + myCookie.getValue());
        if (myCookie.getName().equals("hots")) {
            // the user has the cookie
            hasTakenSurvey = true;
        }
    }
    if (!hasTakenSurvey) {
        Cookie myCookie = new Cookie("hots","true");
        response.addCookie(myCookie);
    }
%>
What I want to do (ultimately) is display a thank you message if a 
person has taken the survey (as evidenced by the presence of the "hots" 
cookie) or display the survey itself if they haven't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated....I'm going to understand these 
things someday.

Jeff
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