How to create Cookies?

graceson · #1 (**permalink**) 07-30-04, 10:32

Dear Friends,

I am alive with Request.QueryString error.Here is new problem.

I want to store login details in client browser,and I want activate the text"Logout" in the place of "Login".All my .asp pages having top level banner as "Login".If one client is Loged in, how i can store login detail in client side and then how we can change "Login" to" Logout" ,and it should be only to that particular client. I am storing that login details in database.

Please help me in solving the problem.Need your valid suggestions

thanX

gmc

Seppuku · #2 (**permalink**) 07-30-04, 13:02

Response.Cookies and Request.Cookies

To create/update a cookie on the client's browser, all writing to the cookies must be done before anything is written to the browser. Once you've written the first "<" of the "<HTML>" tag, you're prohibited from writing to cookies.

On the other hand, you can read from cookies at any time since their values are stored in the server's memory from the initial request of the browser.

When your user logs in, you'd use Response.Cookies to write the value to the browser (Avoid storing personal information. Instead, store a unique identifier you can use to query the DB for more information.)

Response.Cookies("Login")("UserID") = "Bob"

You could simply do:

Response.Cookies("UserID") = "Bob"

But I like to group my cookie values together.

With that complete, your banner would simply use the Request.Cookies("Login")("UserID") to check to see if they have been authenticated:

If Trim(Request.Cookies("Login")("UserID")) <> "" Then...

Search the web for more information on the methods and properties of the Cookies collection.