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id-chalmers
Mentor
11 years ago

getting client cookies name and value

What is the best way to A: check that a cookie of name "cookie-a" has been set in the client, and B: to get the value and expiration of cookie-a? I can do this fairly easily with javascript (documen...
  • ChiaraS's avatar
    ChiaraS
    11 years ago

    Hi,

     

    this should work:

     

    <#assign cookie = http.request.cookies.name.get("cookie-a") />
<#if cookie?? && cookie.value?? && (cookie.value == "value")>
todo
</#if>

     

Claudius's avatar
Claudius
Boss
11 years ago
What's the error saying? The problem might be just as simple as the "-" in your cookie name being considered a minus sign. Try using a different cookie name with only alphanumeric characters.