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Cookies and JSP website

 
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Apr 11th, 2008
Hi everyone,

I am trying to create a simple website using cookies to remember the last 2 links visited on my site. It is a very simple 2 column website:

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  1. <%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" import="java.util.*"%>
  2.  
  3. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
  4. "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
  5.  
  6. <html>
  7. <head>
  8.     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  9.     <title>Testing Site</title>
  10. </head>
  11.  
  12. <body> 
  13.  
  14.     <table border="1" width="800" valign="top">
  15.  
  16.         <tr>      
  17.             <td width="300" valign="top">
  18.  
  19.                 <h2>Navigation</h2>
  20.  
  21.                 <% 
  22.                 if(request.getParameter("genre") == null) { %>                    
  23.  
  24.                     <p>Please select a music genre:</p>
  25.  
  26.                     <form action="index.jsp">
  27.                         <input type="radio" name="genre" value="rock" /> Rock <br />
  28.                         <input type="radio" name="genre" value="pop" /> Pop <br />
  29.                         <input type="submit" value="Search" />
  30.                     </form>  
  31.                 <% }
  32.                 if (request.getParameter("genre") != null) {
  33.                         if (request.getParameter("genre").equals("rock")) { %>
  34.                             <p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("genre")%>. Here is a list of subgenres:</p>
  35.                             <form action="index.jsp">
  36.                                 <input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="classic rock" /> Classic Rock<br />
  37.                                 <input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="hard rock" /> Hard Rock<br />
  38.                                 <input type="submit" value="Search" />
  39.                             </form>
  40.                             <%
  41.                         }
  42.                         if (request.getParameter("genre").equals("pop")) { %>
  43.                             <p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("genre")%>. Here is a list of subgenres:</p>
  44.                             <form action="index.jsp">
  45.                                 <input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="classic pop" /> Classic Pop <br />
  46.                                 <input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="jazz" /> Jazz <br />
  47.                                 <input type="submit" value="Search" />
  48.                             </form>
  49.                             <% 
  50.                         }
  51.                     } %>
  52.  
  53.             </td>
  54.  
  55.             <td width="600" valign="top">
  56.  
  57.                 <%
  58.  
  59.                 if (request.getParameter("subgenre") == null) { %>
  60.                     <h2>Welcome to My Website</h2>
  61.                     <p>Please use the left menu to select your music genre and subgenre.</p>
  62.                     <p>The last three sites you visted are: </p>
  63.  
  64.                     <ol>
  65.                         <li>Site One</li>
  66.                         <li>Site Two</li>
  67.                         <li>Site Three</li>
  68.                     </ol> 
  69.                     <%
  70.                 }
  71.  
  72.                 if (request.getParameter("subgenre") != null) { 
  73.                     if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("classic rock")) { %>
  74.  
  75.                         <p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
  76.                         <ul>
  77.                             <li>The Beatles</li>
  78.                             <li>Pink Floyd</li>
  79.                             <li>AC/DC</li>
  80.                             <li>Aerosmith</li>
  81.                         </ul>  
  82.                         <p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
  83.                         <%
  84.                     }
  85.                     if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("hard rock")) { %>
  86.  
  87.                         <p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
  88.                         <ul>
  89.                             <li>Led Zeppelin</li>
  90.                             <li>Jimi Hendrix</li>
  91.                             <li>Metallica</li>
  92.                             <li>The Who</li>
  93.                         </ul>  
  94.                         <p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
  95.                         <%
  96.                     }
  97.                     if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("classic pop")) { %>
  98.  
  99.                         <p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
  100.                         <ul>
  101.                             <li>David Bowie</li>
  102.                             <li>Elton John</li>
  103.                             <li>The Police</li>
  104.                             <li>Buddy Holly</li>
  105.                         </ul>  
  106.                         <p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
  107.                         <%
  108.                     }
  109.                     if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("jazz")) { %>
  110.  
  111.                         <p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
  112.                         <ul>
  113.                             <li>Duke Ellington</li>
  114.                             <li>Kim Waters</li>
  115.                             <li>Igor</li>
  116.                             <li>Peter White</li>
  117.                         </ul>  
  118.                         <p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
  119.                         <%
  120.                     }
  121.                 }
  122.  
  123.                 %>
  124.                 <br />
  125.                 <br />
  126.  
  127.            </td>
  128.         </tr> 
  129.     </table>
  130.  
  131. </body>
  132. </html>

Right now, cookies have not been implemented. I am simply organizing the flow of the website.

Now my question is: How do I add cookies to make my website remember the last 2 or 3 links visited on the website? As you can see, I just entered Site One, Site Two, and Site Three for intuitive purposes and they are static.

I am not very familiar with implementing cookies, but I do understand how they work.

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Cookies and JSP website

 
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Okay question 1:

How do I make a cookie persists through a refresh? I tried setMaxAge, but it does not work.

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  2. <%
  3.          Cookie c = null;
  4.          if (request.getParameter("subgenre") == null) {
  5.                 c = new Cookie ("abc", "none");
  6.          } else {
  7.                 c = new Cookie ("subgenre", request.getParameter("subgenre"));
  8.          }
  9.                 c.setMaxAge(250000);
  10.  
  11.          %>

Here is the code I used for a basic cookie, but when I refresh the page, the cookie becomes null again. I understand that is because I set Cooke c = null; however, if I don't, my program wouldn't run.

I need some help please ?
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Well.... I guess cookie's too difficult for everyone else too eh?

I feel a little bit better knowing that nobody on a JSP forum can solve the problem I (a beginner) can't solve.

EDIT: If you think I am trying to anger you to induce a reply, you are correct. PLEASE HELP!
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Apr 12th, 2008
Cookies are easy as well as tasty.
But you shouldn't use Java code in a JSP, so we're not going to help you do that.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
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Why shouldn't I use java code in JSP?
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that's been explained many times already.

JSP are meant to be maintained by people with no Java skills and to be solely a display technology. Use tag libraries (especially JSTL and/or JSF) instead, pull all business logic (which includes ALL database logic) to servlets (or even better, into classes and EJBs called from servlets).
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