How to View cookies in browser

Often a times we have to test what cookies are set on the browser during testing a issue. Everyone has figured out there own way of doing this. I would like to share the way I do this during troubleshooting.

1) You can use javascript:document.cookie on the browser window to check the cookies. Problem with this is that the content of the page is gone and you have to reload the page to see the page content. Use second approach to solve this problem.

2) Alternate to this approach is to use the javascript ALERT as javascript:alert(document.cookie). If there are one or two cookies this is fine but if number of cookies are more then reading the alert box becomes a pain. Use third approach to overcome this problem.

3) Use javascript:alert(unescape(document.cookie).replace(/;/gi,"\n\n")) to get the cookies displayed separately.

How to enable special character support on Sun Directory Server?

Organizations in today's world are spreaded across the globe and they want to have a support of all the character set in the applications so there user's can access them at any part of the globe in there local language.

To enable Special character support in Sun DS follow below steps

1) Login into the directory manager console
2) Open the instance on which you want to enable special character support
3) Go to Configuration Tab
4) Expend the plugins
5) Select "7 bit check" plugin and disable it. By default it is enabled.
6) Restart the server and now you are all set to dump special characters in the Directory Server.

Same activity can be done using the command line but I am not posting that part here.

Howto install MySQL as a service using custom INI file

mysqld --install
--defaults-file=


--defaults-file option is required to fix the 1067 error which comes most of the times.