Read cookies with JSTL

Question

I was studying about cookies and was able to create and read them using scriptlet-based JSP,however when I tried to do the same using JSTL it's not displaying all my cookies, only "JSESSIONID ..." and with my other project it shows the cookie that I created. My question here is why, it seems right for me but not for my browser.. Here is what I'm trying to do using JSTL:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

<c:forEach var="cookieVal" items="${requestScope.cookies}" > 
    <tr>
        <td align="right">${cookieVal.name}</td>
        <td>${cookieVal.value}</td>
    </tr>
</c:forEach>

And my other project working:

<% Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
    Cookie cookie = cookies[i];%>
    <tr>
        <td><%=cookie.getName()%></td>
        <td><%=cookie.getValue()%></td>
    </tr>
<%}%>

And I have m JSTL .jars inside my project libraries folder... Thank you!

Answer 1

You can access cookie value named cookeName by ${cookie.cookieName.value}

Answer 2

requestScope.cookies will search for an request attribute named cookies. If you want to access the cookies property of the request, you need pageContext.request.cookies.

That said, accessing cookies is something you should do with Java code, inside a controller (servlet), and not in the view (JSP), which should only deal with HTML generation.