Cookie btw. ASP and .NET

collie · October 30th, 2003, 09:11 AM

Hi,
In my asp page i have the following code:
<%
If Not Request.Form("Name") = "" Then
Response.Cookies("Name") = Request.Form("Name")

end if
%>
<html>

In my aspx page i have the following:
Public Class COOKIES
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim NAME
NAME = Request.Cookies("Name")
Response.Write(NAME)

However the aspx doesn't seem to recognise the cookie. why?

Thanks

bmains · October 30th, 2003, 10:00 AM

Hello,

I know that ASP and ASP.NET implement different Session objects, and that you would need to write code to integrate the two. My guess is that that maybe the case for the cookies object too...

Brian

planoie · October 30th, 2003, 05:35 PM

Request.Cookies("cookieName") returns a System.Web.HttpCookie object.

You need to access the "Value" property of that object.

Request.Cookies("cookieName").Value

Peter

collie · October 31st, 2003, 04:45 PM

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I add .value but it still doesn't work. Must i change anything in the web config file? Must i add any line in aspx.vb? Must I write the line before page.ispostback?

Thanks.

planoie · November 3rd, 2003, 11:23 AM

I'm stumped then.

Peter
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collie · November 10th, 2003, 09:38 AM

I found the answer in MSDN (for some reason i can't find the link but here is something that i copied onto notepad):
In an earlier version of ASP, create a new ASP page, and then add the following code:
<%@ Language="VBScript"%>
<%
    Response.Cookies("MyCookie") = "some value and other characters such as #, $, and so on"
    Response.Cookies("MyCookie").Path = "/"
    Response.Write(Request.Cookies("MyCookie"))
%>
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" action="CookieTest.aspx">
    <input type="submit" value="Click Me" ID="Submit1" NAME="Submit1">
</form>
</body>

Create a new .aspx page named CookieTest.aspx in the same project or application.
Add the following code to the .aspx page:
<script runat="server" language="vb">
    sub Page_Load()
        Response.Write("Hello from CookieTest.aspx ...<br>")
        Response.Write(Request.Cookies("MyCookie").Value() + "<br>")
    end sub
</script>

Run the ASP page first. Take note of the output.
Click Submit1 to browse to CookieTest.aspx. Notice that the output is encoded in UrlEncode format. This occurs because the ASP code from the previous page sets the cookie's data.
To decode the data that is retrieved from the cookie, use the following syntax:
Response.Write(Server.UrlDecode(Request.Cookies("M yCookie").Value()))