Write a cookie to the client.
On the next page, attempt to read it back.

That's all products like BrowserHawk do.

Cheers
Ken

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From: "Jeff McFarland" <jeff@s...>
Subject: [asp_web_howto] Is there a way to detect weather a browser supports
cookies


: Is there a way to tell if a browser currently supports cookies or has
: cookies turned off? If so, how would I accomplish this?

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Browserhawk is a fine product, and it returns a whole slew of information
besides whether or not cookies are supported.  You pay for this
functionality, however, by insantiating a server-side DLL every time your
web page is processed.  
 
If you're only concerned with determining a few things, I suggest conducting
your tests utilizing client-side javascript.  For example, it's very easy to
determine whether the user has cookies support (session or otherwise) by
using the simple test:
 
    if (document.cookies)...
 
Of course, this would require they have scripting enabled, but that's
another story altogether ;-)
 
Cheers, 
 
Jack

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