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2007-06-19, 7:23 am

Hi,

Is it possible to read a cookie set by a Theme from a JSP component in a WCM Viewer portlet? Could anyone give me some sample code?

I think it may not be possible because portal theme and portlets are considered to be different web applications. Am I right? Does anyone know it for sure?

Thank you

2007-06-19, 7:23 pm

Hi,

It should be possible. Cookies are stored/managed by the client and is shareable between different web apps.

I believe the WCM Viewer uses the IBM Portlet API and is not a JSR168 portlet. As such, in the JSP, you might be able to do:

Cookie[] cookieArray = request.getCookies();

This method is not available in JSR168. While there is not an official standard yet, I found the following trick to work:

String cookieList = request.getProperty("cookie");
/* Now parse through the ; delimited cookie list for the cookie name/value you need */

Also, another alternative might be to use Javascript within your JSP to read the coookie. Hope that help!

Regards,
Bryan
IBM WebSphere Portal
ISV Technical Enablement & Support



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