Hi we are trying to pass cookies into our servers to set &VARS and are not having much luck. Here is the code I am setting in the 'customer settings' section of the server:
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wfvar1=ClassFilter
wfvar2=SubClassFilter
wfvar3=CustomerFilter

CLASS_COOKIENAME=Class
SUBCLASS_COOKIENAME=Subclass
ACCT_COOKIENAME=Account
[call] CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar(CLASS_COOKIENAME,wfvar1)
[set] ClassFilter (pass)
[call] CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar(SUBCLASS_COOKIENAME,wfar2)
[set] SubClassFilter (pass)
[call] CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar(ACCT_COOKIENAME,wfvar3)
[set] CustomerFilter (pass)
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I am not sure if I am setting it right or what exactly is going on but essentially we are trying to pass a class, subclass, and account number from a cookie to 3 &VARS (classfilter, subclassfilter, customerfilter).

Any help would be great, thanks.

PS: the [call] and [set]s are actually in <> but I cannot use those when I post here.

An example of the syntax for passing variables that I'm familiar with (5.3):

WF_PROGRAM=&CGI_PROG
<set> WF_PROGRAM (pass)

I have never passed cookie values so I'm not sure of that part.

I assume the example you gave is for passing WF parameters.

Anyone else have any other ideas/suggestions?

quote:

CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar

is not supplied by IBI - it it written by you?

That should be an IBI provided function. From another post:
https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/...251011051#8251011051

They used the same function in that example and I was also given a generic example by an IBI consultant who was onsite a week ago.

I did not realize this was an IBI provided Java class (or something).

I'll play around a bit, meanwhile, here's some doc I found on my PC using Google Desktop:

file:///C:/ibi/WebFOCUS53/ibi_html/javadoc/ibi/webfoc/WFEXTDefault.html#CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar(java.lang.String[], javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar
public java.lang.Long CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar(java.lang.String[] output,
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
java.lang.String cookieName,
java.lang.String wfVarName)This method copies the contents of an HTTP cookie into a WFServlet variable.

Parameters:
output - The array of one string that will be used to return ampersand delimited name/value pairs back to the caller. This argument is an internal argument that WFServlet passes to each user method that gets called from the WFS file.
request - The current HTTPServletRequest passed from the servlet. This argument is an internal argument that WFServlet passes to each user method that gets called from the WFS file.
cookieName - The name of the HTTP cookie from which the value should be retrieved.
wfVarName - The name of the WF Servlet variable that will contain the value.
Returns:
Returns 0 Upon Success
Returns 999 Upon Failure

The following works for me.

JSESSIONID is a cookie value set by WF BI Dashboard.

I added the following to my Custom Settings:

wJSESSIONID=vJSESSIONID
cJSESSIONID=JSESSIONID
<call> CopyHTTPCookieToWFVar(cJSESSIONID,wJSESSIONID)
<set> vJSESSIONID(pass

I'm not sure if I've confused the issue, but I used the same name everywhere, I just added a prefix where necessary - w for web, c for cookie, v for variable.

The first thing I would do is verify that the cokkie values you want to pass actually exist.

I use the following JavaScript to display the cookies for the current page:

javascript:if(document.cookie.length<1){alert('No cookie for this site.')}else{alert('Cookie for this site:'+document.cookie)}

I've got this code embedded in a Shortcut on the Links toolbar of IE.