Re: MOD_PLSQL and cookies - when available to the server?

In message <dlaqst$vbc$1_at_news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl> , Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> writes
>Andrew Hardy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking at a mod_plsql-based application which uses cookies to store
>> session identifiers that link to a table of session information.
>>
>> At the moment, the application sets the cookie during a user
>> (lightweight i.e. not a true database user) logon in the 'welcome' screen.
>>
>> Various screens read the cookie to determine who they're talking to, etc.
>>
>> I'd like to create a simple URL that allows a non-interactive access to
>> an existing procedure. Although I can create a simple procedure that can
>> check passed logon details and set the cookie, subsequent procedures do
>> not seem to be able to see the cookie.
>>
>> Is this because the cookie has not been sent back to the browser yet
>> (i.e. I haven't got the 'welcome' return to browser)? Or... am I doing
>> something wrong and cookies that have been created by the server should
>> be accessible even if the HTTP has not been returned to the client
>> browser? Or... something else!
>>
>> Environments to be supported are 8.1.7.4 and 10gR2.

[snip]

>Your clients browser handles cookies, so if you do not send
>a screen (HTML) *with* cookies, you can *never* request a
>cookie back on subsequent screens.

OK, pretty much as I thought - I had hoped that Oracle might have the cookie in some sort of a buffer prior to sending.

>And -without knowing the application- I'd seriously look into
>global temporary tables (not an 8i feature, iirc)
>

GTTs are in 8i, but I'm not sure how this would help me?

Thanks for your reply,

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