Assigning Application Item

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to set an Application level Item to hold a user's 'licence code' when they log into our website. This information is held in a cookie already set in the user's browser (for demo purposes I've called this 'EASY_COOKIE').
For development purposes, I have set the cookie - using third party freeware, I can confirm it is there - and have built a small test application to read this cookie and set an application item called 'USER_LICENCE_CODE'.
Now I've set a page process to run after the header loads, to set this item.
This is the PL/SQL block I've put in for the process:
declare
v varchar2(255) := null;
c owa_cookie.cookie;
begin
c := owa_cookie.get('EASY_COOKIE');
:USER_LICENCE_CODE := c.vals(1);
end;
The success message is returned OK, the page loads, but the application item 'USER_LICENCE_CODE' is still null.
Is there anything obviously wrong with my PL/SQL block?
Cheers for any assistance,
Scott

Answer 1

1. Ensure that the session where you check the application item's value is the same as the session used by the page that sets the value. Sometimes a login page will use one session ID and by the time authentication completes, you get a new session ID.
2. Ensure that the path associated with the cookie is the path to your apex application.
Scott