Maintaining persistent client state in Oracle 8.1.6

Question

I'm running Oracle 8.1.6 on Windows NT 4.0.
What are the methods to maintain the state of HTTP session (variable values, maybe transaction state) between the requests of the same user, in other words, how can I maintain HTTP session state in Oracle 8.1.6?
It's preferable to avoid using cookie, but I'll be very grateful for any advice.
Thanks in advance, Alex.

Answer 1

Here's my Javascript Code for writing the Cookie (adapted from www.webmonkey.com):
Htp.p('<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function SetCookie(){
if(document.cookie=="")
{var t_ck="cotavalor=p_cliente:'&#0124; &#0124;to_char(t_new_CV_Cookie,'9999999999')&#0124; &#0124;'";var t_date=new Date("December 31, 2050");var t_ck_date=t_date.toGMTString();
t_ck=t_ck+";expires="+t_ck_date+";path=/";
document.cookie=the_cookie;}
else {return false;}}
//--></script>
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
SetCookie()
//--></script>');
Now here's my PL/SQL code for reading it:
t_cookie := owa_cookie.get('cotavalor');
Simple. I had to write that Javascript cause the Functions provided by Oracle didn't seem to work at all, while the Javascript version works easily.
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