Question

Testing:

return request.getCookies() == null; 

is not an appropriate way test. Is there another way?

Answer 1

You generally want to use JavaScript to determine if the client’s browser has cookies enabled:

<script type='text/javascript'> var cookieEnabled=(navigator.cookieEnabled)? true : false  //if not IE4+ nor NS6+ if (typeof navigator.cookieEnabled=='undefined' && !cookieEnabled){  document.cookie='testcookie' cookieEnabled=(document.cookie.indexOf('testcookie')!=-1)? true : false }  //if (cookieEnabled) //if cookies are enabled on client's browser //do whatever  </script>