Leon -
Thank you for your response, but I don't understand it. I have a
key question:
how does Tomcat detect that a browser does not accept cookies?
There are a number of different ways to detect it inside my
application, but all of them seem to need a roundtrip to the browser. If,
as I suspect, Tomcat can tell without the redirect, I would like to use
Tomcat's knowledge. If Tomcat uses a roundtrip, I would still like to use
Tomcat's knowledge, so that I don't have to duplicate the work inside my
app.
Garey Mills
Library Systems Office
UC Berkeley
The brain is not where you think
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
> You could check for your cookie in first request and if not present
> just set the cookie in the request and redirect to another page which
> reads the cookie (btw, it can also be done with javascript without
> user-visible-reload). The difference to your approach that each user
> will be redirected exactly once, since you are checking for your
> cookie in first request and it should remain persistent for next
> visits.
>
> regards
> Leon
>
> On 6/21/06, Garey Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > I have an application that does not work correctly when the
> > browser does not accept cookies. I added some code that rewrites the query
> > string the first time the app is entered to include a new parameter and
> > then redirects to the app. I watch for that parameter and if I find it I
> > check whether the session id is from a cookie. If it isn't I put up a
> > "Sorry, you need cookies message" and exit.
> >
> > This solution is not optimal, since I am seeing a blank page the
> > first time I try to get into the application.
> >
> > So my question is: Tomcat must ascertain whether the browser
> > accepts cookies in order to decide whether to use cookies or URL
> > rewriting. How does it do it? and can I check Tomcat to find out, too?
> >
> > Garey Mills
> > Library Systems Office
> > UC Berkeley
> >
> > The brain is not where you think
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
