Cookies

[Yogender Butola]

I'm setting cokkies through my servlet. But before doing that, I want to confirm whether cookies are enabled in the browser or not. If cookies are not enabled, I want to display a message in the borwser to enable the cookies first.

How can I check whethere cookies are enabled or disabled by the browser?

[JulianInactive KennedyInactive]

I don't think you can do that except by setting a cookie and seeing if it comes back with the next request. If it does then cookies are enabled, if it doesn't then they're probably not.

Jules

[James Clinton]

the alternative is URL rewriting, however exposing the session id in the request can open up security issues.