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Cookies and JSP website
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:
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" import="java.util.*"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Testing Site</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" width="800" valign="top">
<tr>
<td width="300" valign="top">
<h2>Navigation</h2>
<%
if(request.getParameter("genre") == null) { %>
<p>Please select a music genre:</p>
<form action="index.jsp">
<input type="radio" name="genre" value="rock" /> Rock
<input type="radio" name="genre" value="pop" /> Pop
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
<% }
if (request.getParameter("genre") != null) {
if (request.getParameter("genre").equals("rock")) { %>
<p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("genre")%>. Here is a list of subgenres:</p>
<form action="index.jsp">
<input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="classic rock" /> Classic Rock
<input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="hard rock" /> Hard Rock
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
<%
}
if (request.getParameter("genre").equals("pop")) { %>
<p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("genre")%>. Here is a list of subgenres:</p>
<form action="index.jsp">
<input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="classic pop" /> Classic Pop
<input type="radio" name="subgenre" value="jazz" /> Jazz
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
<%
}
} %>
</td>
<td width="600" valign="top">
<%
if (request.getParameter("subgenre") == null) { %>
<h2>Welcome to My Website</h2>
<p>Please use the left menu to select your music genre and subgenre.</p>
<p>The last three sites you visted are: </p>
<ol>
<li>Site One</li>
<li>Site Two</li>
<li>Site Three</li>
</ol>
<%
}
if (request.getParameter("subgenre") != null) {
if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("classic rock")) { %>
<p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Beatles</li>
<li>Pink Floyd</li>
<li>AC/DC</li>
<li>Aerosmith</li>
</ul>
<p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
<%
}
if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("hard rock")) { %>
<p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
<ul>
<li>Led Zeppelin</li>
<li>Jimi Hendrix</li>
<li>Metallica</li>
<li>The Who</li>
</ul>
<p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
<%
}
if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("classic pop")) { %>
<p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
<ul>
<li>David Bowie</li>
<li>Elton John</li>
<li>The Police</li>
<li>Buddy Holly</li>
</ul>
<p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
<%
}
if (request.getParameter("subgenre").equals("jazz")) { %>
<p>You have chosen <%=request.getParameter("subgenre")%>. Here is a list of bands:</p>
<ul>
<li>Duke Ellington</li>
<li>Kim Waters</li>
<li>Igor</li>
<li>Peter White</li>
</ul>
<p>Click <a href="index.jsp">here</a> to go back to home</p>
<%
}
}
%>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</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!
Okay question 1:
How do I make a cookie persists through a refresh? I tried setMaxAge, but it does not work.
<%
Cookie c = null;
if (request.getParameter("subgenre") == null) {
c = new Cookie ("abc", "none");
} else {
c = new Cookie ("subgenre", request.getParameter("subgenre"));
}
c.setMaxAge(250000);
%>
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 ? :(
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!
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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