[Zope] sessions and disabled cookies

[Tim Hicks]

I think this is a lost cause, but I have the following problem.

I want to use sessions to store a 'flash-enabled' true or false value so I
know what content to serve up.  No problem so far.  If the SESSION object
doesn't have a 'flash' key and there is nothing in the request (query
string), I want to redirect to a detection page that then sends the user on
to either a flash enabled or disabled page.  Still no problem.

The problem is, if the user is blocking cookies, then they'll be forced
through this procedure *every* time they follow a link on my site :-(.  I
can't use the urlencode() method as links will be embedded in content and my
authors are not smart enough to do this.

Is there any way I can tell server side if the user is blocking my cookies?

cheers,

tim