Check Yes/No cookies enabled?

It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a person's
web browser and based on this check send him to another page which does not
support cookies (ie login?)?

Thanks
Jason

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

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It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a person's
web browser and based on this check send him to another page which does not support cookies (ie login?)?

Thanks
Jason

[Curt_C [MVP]]

yes, just write one, redirect to another page, read it. If it's not there
they dont accept them. Just make sure not to write and read on the same
page...or you wont get an accurate result.
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<ja***@catamaranco.com> wrote in message
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It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a person's
web browser and based on this check send him to another page which does not support cookies (ie login?)?

Thanks
Jason

This seems similiar to this article which points out it the process could be
ruined by caching and the fact that it uses up server resources:

http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/...ct/default.asp

Would you advise using this approach to allow user to bypass login screen if
he is present in database?

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:uD**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

yes, just write one, redirect to another page, read it. If it's not there
they dont accept them. Just make sure not to write and read on the same
page...or you wont get an accurate result.
--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
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It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a person's web browser and based on this check send him to another page which does

not

support cookies (ie login?)?

Thanks
Jason

[Evertjan.]

wrote on 05 aug 2004 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a
person's web browser and based on this check send him to another page
which does not support cookies (ie login?)?

<http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=ASP+whether+cookies+are+enabled>

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Does this solution also hold true for users whose browsers have cookies
enabled but have turned them off?

"Aaron [SQL Server MVP]" <te*****@dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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<ja***@catamaranco.com> wrote in message
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It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a person's web browser and based on this check send him to another page which does

not

support cookies (ie login?)?

Thanks
Jason

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

Yes. It would probably take you all of 45 seconds to verify that for
yourself, though... ;-)

Remember, it is not checking a setting, it is setting a cookie and then
trying to read it! Whether they have a browser that doesn't support
cookies, or it does but they turned them off, the result will be the same,
no?

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<ja***@catamaranco.com> wrote in message
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Does this solution also hold true for users whose browsers have cookies
enabled but have turned them off?

I guess you are right...

...as usual! :)
"Aaron [SQL Server MVP]" <te*****@dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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Yes. It would probably take you all of 45 seconds to verify that for
yourself, though... ;-)

Remember, it is not checking a setting, it is setting a cookie and then
trying to read it! Whether they have a browser that doesn't support
cookies, or it does but they turned them off, the result will be the same,
no?

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<ja***@catamaranco.com> wrote in message
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Does this solution also hold true for users whose browsers have cookies
enabled but have turned them off?