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Cookies attributes

I create a cookie, set a comment and an age, res.add(cookie)...
But when I read it at the next page, all attributes seem to be missing. Only name and value show up. The rest are null and -1 for max age... How come?

piou

ASKER

Um, come to think of it, how can I tell if it's a session or a stored cookie? I can't find it anyway in the cookies directory (windows 2000), even if I don't close the browser.

mmuruganandam

Check your browser for cookie setting. If the browser is not allowing the cookie, then you won't find anything.

piou

ASKER

I have set "medium" level on IE, and I'm using lots of cookie sites (like EE) without problems.

mmuruganandam

Cookie c = new Cookie(name, value);
response.addCookie(c);

This way only you are adding rite.

piou

ASKER

Yes, that's what I do.

mmuruganandam

Are you getting your cookies in the request. Atleast few of your cookies that you set.

Can you post your servlet also

piou

ASKER

Servlet1

Cookie cookie = new Cookie("databank", "username");
cookie.setComment("This is a test cookie");
cookie.setMaxAge(4000);
res.addCookie(cookie);

Servlet 2

Cookie[] cookies = req.getCookies();
if (cookies!=null) {
for (int i=0; i<cookies.length; i++) {
System.out.println(cookies[i].getName());
System.out.println(cookies[i].getValue());
System.out.println(cookies[i].getComment());
System.out.println(cookies[i].getPath());
System.out.println(cookies[i].getVersion());
System.out.println(cookies[i].getDomain());
System.out.println(cookies[i].getMaxAge());
System.out.println(cookies[i].getSecure());
}

As simple as it can get :)

            } else {
                  System.out.println("No cookies set");
            }

mmuruganandam

Comment this

// cookie.setMaxAge(4000);

then use

cookie.setDomain("www.abc.com");

Try this.

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piou

ASKER

If running everything on localhost? Just "localhost"?

mmuruganandam

yep. use localhost

piou

ASKER

No good. Result remains the same. I even set IE to the lowest privacy/security level.
It's so simple... what on earth am I missing?!

piou

ASKER

Could it be the server itself? I'm using Tomcat 5 for the time being...

mmuruganandam

I donno about tomcat. I have used cookies in websphere. I have done that coding in this way only.

May be you can try some other server.

piou

ASKER

If you're a Java person and you're sure we don't miss something, it's enough for me. Thanks!

mmuruganandam

http://cermics.enpc.fr/doc/java/j2eetutorial-1.4/doc/Admintool6.html

In that URL, check Table C-12 Context Properties

Try this one and let me know.

piou

ASKER

Thanks for the link.

To be honest, I never had to run the J2EE server before. What happens is that the server starts ok, I can access the default page at port 8000, but the j2ee-admin page does not work at all; 404 error.

EE1.3, SE1.4