Cookie Confusion?

Ian Ryder · March 27th, 2012, 09:54 AM

Hi All,

I hope you can help me. I am experienced with VB.NET but new to ASP. I am currently nearing the end of chanter 6 of the beginners guide to ASP but I am struggling with the use of cookies?

In chapter 6 and beyond cookies are use to remember the selected theme for the WROX website. Seems simple to me and the VB code used to achieve this is trivial, even though some of the web classes are new to me.

The problem that I am having though is that no cookies are being created on my local machine to remember the selected theme on the site? To try and see where I went wrong I have ran the source code that came with the book for chapters 6 and 19 and these also do not create the cookies on my local machine to remember the selected theme? I can therefore only assume that my own code is correct and is the same as the WROX source code and that there must be something else going on to stop the cookies from being created?

I have thought about raiding the biscuit barrel but I guess that crumbs on my keyboard will probably not help me too much so can anyone out there shed any light on where I might be doing wrong?

For information, I am using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and I have Norton Internet Security installed.

Thanks to anyone and everyone who may be able to guide me in the right direction.

Kind regards,

Ian

Imar · March 27th, 2012, 10:18 AM

Hi Ian,

Could it be that your browser or security software is blocking the cookies? Have you tried a different browser such as Firefox or Chrome? Also, when you tried my code, did you use the entire site or just copy in some pages? There could be a missmatch in cookie names in the Master Page and the Base Base. if you only copied the former or the latter, the problem may persist....

Cheers,

Imar

Ian Ryder · March 27th, 2012, 10:59 PM

Hi Imar,

Thanks for your comments and prompt reply. I ultimately ended up on the same track as yourself, believing that it had to be something to do with my browser settings or Norton.

It simply ended up being my browser settings which were set to delete browsing history on exit. This setting included cookies. Once removed, the application works as expected, saving the cookie and therefore remembering the selected theme.

Great idea with the P2P forum to help with questions on the book and development in general.

Thanks once again for your help.

Cheers

Ian

Imar · March 28th, 2012, 02:54 AM

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my browser settings which were set to delete browsing history on exit

That explains a lot.... ;-)

Cheers, and thanks for the follow-up.

Imar