cookie test?

[George Hester]

I have always used this in ASP to test if the client is accepting cookies:

<%@language="VB Script"%>
<%
Session ("nc") = 1
If Len(Session("nc ")) = 0 Then
'Cookies Off
Else
'Cookies On
End If
%>

But I only ever tested it in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 though not sure. Anyway with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 Len(Session("nc ")) <> 0 always whether cookies are on or off. Can anyone suggest a better cookie test that will work in most browsers? Thanks.

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[Evertjan.]

George Hester wrote on 30 jan 2004 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

Maintaining the session state on the current page or the next page or
any page,

The server only "knows" it cannot maintain the session if it does not get a
session-id cookie value back, that the server delivered.

So the server is unaware of that possibility till it is asks for a second
page with should have that cookie.

So it must assume the second request is from a new session and any session
variable to be tested returns an empty string.

So those pages are not sessionless, they are all the first page of a new
session.

So the session variables set on such page are valid on that page only.
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[George Hester]

OK based on that I have another idea then. Thanks. But you know I have been doing it this way for a very long time. I have Windows 2000 Professional set up and I am going to go try it over there. It has SP4 in it.

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George Hester wrote on 30 jan 2004 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

Maintaining the session state on the current page or the next page or
any page,

The server only "knows" it cannot maintain the session if it does not get a
session-id cookie value back, that the server delivered.

So the server is unaware of that possibility till it is asks for a second
page with should have that cookie.

So it must assume the second request is from a new session and any session
variable to be tested returns an empty string.

So those pages are not sessionless, they are all the first page of a new
session.

So the session variables set on such page are valid on that page only.


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The Netherlands.
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[George Hester MVP - IIS]

All that time I been using that method. But it looks as though I must have
been living in timbuktu because it's not working over here either. You know
I tested over this and over and over till it worked. Because I also detect
when scripting is off in the same set of code. Now all that happens is the
scripting test. The cookie test just seems to have died. I hate it when
that happens. Thanks for putting up with me and the explanations.

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George Hester
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"Evertjan." <ex************ **@interxnl.net > wrote in message
news:Xn******** ************@19 4.109.133.29...

George Hester wrote on 30 jan 2004 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

Maintaining the session state on the current page or the next page or
any page,
The server only "knows" it cannot maintain the session if it does not get

a session-id cookie value back, that the server delivered.

So the server is unaware of that possibility till it is asks for a second
page with should have that cookie.

So it must assume the second request is from a new session and any session
variable to be tested returns an empty string.

So those pages are not sessionless, they are all the first page of a new
session.

So the session variables set on such page are valid on that page only.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)