The Request.Cookies Property

Introduction

The Request.Cookies property can be used to retrieve the values stored in the client’s cookie. Cookies are small files, which stores information on the clients system. Nowadays cookies are used nearly on every commercial website. Websites like Hotmail, Yahoo and even TopXML uses cookies. Some websites like GMail doesn’t even work if you have cookies disabled. These mentioned websites uses cookies to store the username and password in a cookie, so that each time you visit the website, you don’t need to login again. This property takes 2 parameters. The first one “Name” is always used and cannot be avoided. It is the name of the cookie, which is required to retrieve the value. The second one is “Key”, which is optional and used to retrieve sub keys. Along with the cookie name you can use the “HasKeys” attribute to verify if the cookie contains any keys.

Example

In the following example I am first using the Response object to set two cookies. After that I use the Request object to retrieve the values.

<%

            ' Set two cookies with some values

            Response.Cookies("Username") = "Sonu"

            Response.Cookies("Password") = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

            ' Retrieve the value from those cookies 

            Response.Write "UserName: " & Request.Cookies("Username") & "<br/>"

            Response.Write "Password: " & Request.Cookies("Password")

%>

Output