It may sound weird, but will do the job perfectly:

At first request you read the cookies and put a flag into session,
that you already read them:

Action (best in a base action of course):
execute(HttpServlet req,....

 HttpSession session = req.getSession();
 if (session.getAttribute(MY_COOKIE_FLAG)==null){
    readCookiesAndCustomize(req);
    session.setAttribute(MY_COOKIE_FLAG,Boolean.TRUE);
 }

regards
Leon

On 1/11/07, Pierre Thibaudeau <pierre.thibaudeau@(protected):
> I would like to read the cookies at the very beginning of a user's session,
> in order (for example) to customize the presentation according to his
> preferences from his previous sessions.
>
> I imagine that overriding the sessionCreated() method of an
> HttpSessionListener would be ideal for my purpose. The problem is that the
> sessionCreated() method provides only an HttpSessionEvent (corresponding to
> the creation of the session). What I need is to access an HttpRequest in
> order to getCookies(). Surely if the session was created, some HttpRequest
> must have been issued in the first place, but how do I get hold of this
> request?
>
> Maybe my problem is that I am not looking at the appropriate Listener. But
> I would rather not listen to every single request when I only need to read
> cookies once at the beginning of a session!
>
> Suggestions?
>
>

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