Setting the cookies value

Question

hi,
when i do, submiting the page i'm able to set the cookie value.I'm not getting any messages. But the Same time when i call the proceudre with parameters from the URL i'm not able to store the cookie value.
It display's the message like this and the value is not stored in the cookies
Content-type: text/html Set-Cookie: emp_no=9999X; path=/;
my code is :
owa_util.mime_header('text/html',FALSE);
     owa_cookie.send('emp_no',UPPER(lv_emp_no),null,'/',null,null);
owa_util.http_header_close;
How do i solve this problem?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Here are a couple of things you can try:
1) remove the following line because it shouldn't be necessary:
the_cookie.num_vals :=0;2) remove the following line because the owa_cookie.send will automatically replace any existing cookie:
     owa_cookie.remove('emp_no',the_cookie.vals(1),null);3) try capturing the cookie value in a local variable and printing it (after htp.body, of course) to see if it is working correctly.
4) enable the browser to prompt you when a cookie is being set so that you can verify whether it is being set or not.
HTH,
Ashesh Parekh
Oracle9iAS Product Management
hi,
Something like this...
Code
PROCEDURE checkLogin ( emp_no in varchar2 default NULL) IS
     pv_check_f      BOOLEAN ;
the_cookie      owa_cookie.cookie;
BEGIN
pv_check_f := FUN_EMP_PASSWORD(UPPER(emp_no) ) ;
IF NOT pv_check_f THEN
     v_msg := 'Sorry Log on denied';
     RAISE EMP_ERROR;
     END IF ;
the_cookie.num_vals :=0;
the_cookie:= owa_cookie.get('emp_no');
if the_cookie.num_vals= 0 then
          owa_util.mime_header('text/html',FALSE);
          owa_cookie.send('emp_no',UPPER(emp_no),null,'/',null,null);
          owa_util.http_header_close;
     else     
          owa_util.mime_header('text/html',FALSE);
     owa_cookie.remove('emp_no',the_cookie.vals(1),null);
          owa_cookie.send('emp_no',UPPER(emp_no),null,'/',null,null);
owa_util.http_header_close;
end if;
htp.p('<script language="javascript">
window.location="http://www...URL";
</script>');
     htp.formclose;
EXCEPTION
     WHEN EMP_ERROR THEN
     Pageheader;
Procedurename.Banner('Login denied');
htp.fontOpen('red','Arial Narrow');
htp.header(3,lv_msg);
loginagain;
htp.fontClose;
htp.centeropen;
     htp.br;
     htp.p('<INPUT type="button" value="Back" onClick="history.back()">');
     htp.br;
     htp.centerclose;
pagefooter;
END checkLogin;
calling the Procedure "checklogin" with the parameter emp_no from the URL like this
"http://....:8810/dir/Packname.checkLogin?emp_no=9ABCDS".
Waiting for ur replay.
Thanks.