cookies sets in one jsp but not another

[Brita]

I have this code in two different places in my company's web (test) website.

int maxAge = 60*60*24*365; // one year cookie
Cookie newCookie = new Cookie("thisWebUser", "Brita");
newCookie.setMaxAge(maxAge);
newCookie.setDomain(".tolltest.com");
newCookie.setPath("/");
response.addCookie(newCookie);
 

When I use this on sampledomain.com/CookieTest/CookieTest.jsp
everything is just fine.

The business website uses a VERY large servlet to manage all the pages in the site. I wanted this code on most of the pages, so I added it to a file called "header.jsp" which is in an include folder.
The page url (not accessable from the outside) is something like this
tolltest.com/homesearch/servlet/HomeSearch

Anyway when I add the cookie code (with different values) to in header.jsp file, the cookie won't set. The code for reading cookies works just fine, and I can see the cookie I set with in CookieTest.jsp

Any ideas what could be going wrong, and more importantly how I might be able to get this to work?

Thanks,
Brita

[r035198x]

I have this code in two different places in my company's web (test) website.

int maxAge = 60*60*24*365; // one year cookie
Cookie newCookie = new Cookie("thisWebUser", "Brita");
newCookie.setMaxAge(maxAge);
newCookie.setDomain(".tolltest.com");
newCookie.setPath("/");
response.addCookie(newCookie);
 

When I use this on sampledomain.com/CookieTest/CookieTest.jsp
everything is just fine.

The business website uses a VERY large servlet to manage all the pages in the site. I wanted this code on most of the pages, so I added it to a file called "header.jsp" which is in an include folder.
The page url (not accessable from the outside) is something like this
tolltest.com/homesearch/servlet/HomeSearch

Anyway when I add the cookie code (with different values) to in header.jsp file, the cookie won't set. The code for reading cookies works just fine, and I can see the cookie I set with in CookieTest.jsp

Any ideas what could be going wrong, and more importantly how I might be able to get this to work?

Thanks,
Brita

I (for one) am afraid I didn't understand all that. What is the cookie supposed to store (as in what problem is it trying to solve)?

[Brita]

The cookie will store a user ID cookie and we take the referrer information and put the user ID and referrer information in a database. People tend to bookmark our web site and we want to be able to go back and find out how people originally come to our web site. We also can then see how often, on average, people come back to our site. We don't care about any personal information about our visiter, I just get the next ID from the database if they don't have a cookie and create a new record.

All of my code worked fine in a little test folder on our test server. When I tried to move the code into the main test website I ran into problems. Since the main servlet controls the whole site I wanted to add the code to an include page which shows up on most all of the public pages. To see how this works in our real web site go to www.tollbrothers.com.

A previous employee tried to do something similar with code in the main servlet but that created more problems than it solved, so I wrote my own code that would work outside the main servlet.

I hope that helps at least a little.

Brita

[r035198x]

The cookie will store a user ID cookie and we take the referrer information and put the user ID and referrer information in a database. People tend to bookmark our web site and we want to be able to go back and find out how people originally come to our web site. We also can then see how often, on average, people come back to our site. We don't care about any personal information about our visiter, I just get the next ID from the database if they don't have a cookie and create a new record.

All of my code worked fine in a little test folder on our test server. When I tried to move the code into the main test website I ran into problems. Since the main servlet controls the whole site I wanted to add the code to an include page which shows up on most all of the public pages. To see how this works in our real web site go to www.tollbrothers.com.

A previous employee tried to do something similar with code in the main servlet but that created more problems than it solved, so I wrote my own code that would work outside the main servlet.

I hope that helps at least a little.

Brita

I can only suggest making sure that it's not because of some funny settings (like cookies disabled, and testing on several browsers e.t.c) but I'll copy this to the Javascript forum as well and see what the experts there may come up with.