check for cookie using tags

[Rashid Darvesh]

Is there a cleaner way to check the existence of a cookie instead of getting an array of cookie and iterating over one by one. I want check whether a cookie exist and i dont want my jsp to have a scriplet to check that.
The existence of a session object can be determined by using <logic:empty> tag. is there a way something lilke this to check for cookies.

Thanks...

[Dan Novik]

yes. See Cookie taglib in Coldtags suite http://www.servletsuite.com/jsp.htm

[Ben Souther]

Yikes!
Do you get the source with these?
I'm always cautious when I see stuff like this:

From our users: "I must say that your tag's are amasing,
simply stunning. It makes the job so much easyer!"

And there's plenty on that site.

If you're going to market something in English, have someone who knows English proof read it.

[vijayakumar vivekanandan]

I believe you can do this with EL. ${Cookie.yourCookieName}. It will not return null if the cookie is not there.

Then you can use <c:if > tag to check if the resultant value is null. This means the cookie is not available.

<c:if test="${Cookie.yourCookieName = null}">

I am also a beginner to EL. Try implementing this.

[Rashid Darvesh]

is there a way to check the value of the cookie as well with an if tag using struts tags instead of JSTL
Thanks...

[Dan Novik]

>Yikes!
>Do you get the source with these?
a bit out of topic, but we have ;-)

As per spelling: it is a quote. Has been published "as is".
As per tag: yes, this taglib does the job in the original question