servlet not finding the cookies set by previous jsp page?

[nick sharma]

hello
i call a servlet from a jsp page in order for it to return me an image.everything was fine till i put in some way of recognising the user who is calling the servlet for the image, by reading a cookie already set in the jsp page when the user logs in.i use the following code to recognise the user

 Cookie[] cookies = request.getKookies();
        HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
boolean foundCookie = false;
 
if(cookies != null) 
 {
 
 
for(int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) 
{
 
    Cookie cookie = cookies[i];


System.out.println("Checking cookies");
        System.out.println((String)session.getAttribute("username"));
        System.out.println("cookie name "+cookie.getName()+" "+cookie.getValue());
if (cookie.getName().equals("user")&& cookie.getValue().equals((String)session.getAttribute("username"))) 
   {  
foundCookie = true;
break;
         }//end of if
 }//end of for
}//end of if   

intrestingly the servlet sets the session right and prints the username attribute right but doesnt get the cookies even though the system has cookies.
whats the problem??
[ June 25, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[nick sharma]

hello can ny1 please help me with the problem??

[Ben Souther]

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