Cookies and page redirection

Question

The following refers to a site I'm working on based on Weblogic 6.1 and IIS
          4.0 :
          I'm currently having difficulties with a site I'm working on where we need
          to check if a visitor has got cookies disabled and redirect them to another
          page to ask them to switch these on.
          I've tried using JSP in an include file at the top of every page on the site
          to do this by writing a test cookie and then trying to read it immediately
          to see
          if the visitor has cookies enabled and then do a response.sendRedirect if
          they don't.
          Unfortunately, JSP can't seem to write a test cookie and then immediately
          read it back
          again in the same response.
          To get round this I used Javascript in an include file to do the same thing
          and then
          tried to do a redirect using location.href = 'cookies.htm' to redirect to
          the cookies
          information page. This works in IE and Netscape 6 but not Netscape 4.
          Netscape 4 redirects to the cookies.htm page but still continues to process
          the remainder
          of the page it was originally trying to open and this causes problems.
          I found a workaround to this which was to include a further bit of
          Javascript at the foot
          of each page for the benefit of Netscape 4 which did a redirect using the
          same method after
          checking a Javascript variable set at the top of the page if cookies were
          disabled.
          This is less than ideal because in Netscape 4 the page attempted to be
          opened displays
          briefly before the redirect at the foot of the page is fired.
          By the way I have to check if cookies are enabled in Netscape 4 by writing a
          test cookie
          because, unlike IE and NN6, Netscape 4 does not support the property
          navigator.cookieEnabled.
          Is there a reliable way for IE, NN4 and NN6 using JSP at the top of every
          page in my site
          to check if someone has cookies disabled, and if so, redirect them to
          another page ?
          Cheers
          Dave
          

Answer 1

You can set a default home page at group level in Oracle Portal. Upon login through the custom login portlet, the user will be taken to the group home page for his/her default group.
Note :
It will work with the login link as well but you need to change the scope of the login link from current page to default home page :
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