ASP cookies().Expires= (what format?)

[coachdave]

Hi all. I am trying to write a cookie onto the client that I want to last for 1 month. I have been using

<%  .......
var hdata= [what i want to save];
exdate=new Date;
exdate.SetMonth(exdate.GetMonth()+1);
Response.Cookies("myname")="History="+hdata;
Response.Cookies("myname").Expires=exdate;
Response.Cookies("myname").Secure=false; ....... 

but the problem is that, I get a runtime error 800a000d , "Type Mismatch" for the line that has
...Expires=exdate. So, how can I create a cookie that will last for a month, what format of the date is it looking for?
hthfys,
Coachdave

[jhardman]

Hi all. I am trying to write a cookie onto the client that I want to last for 1 month. I have been using

<%  .......
var hdata= [what i want to save];
exdate=new Date;
exdate.SetMonth(exdate.GetMonth()+1);
Response.Cookies("myname")="History="+hdata;
Response.Cookies("myname").Expires=exdate;
Response.Cookies("myname").Secure=false; ....... 

but the problem is that, I get a runtime error 800a000d , "Type Mismatch" for the line that has
...Expires=exdate. So, how can I create a cookie that will last for a month, what format of the date is it looking for?
hthfys,
Coachdave

try

Response.Cookies("myname").Expires=now() + 30

(or 31) or you can do a tricky calculation to figure out how many days are in the current month, but that seems a bit too laborious when you can just say it expires "now() + 30"

(I think this is right. at least, I don't want to look too foolish)

Jared

[danp129]

I always used Response.Cookies("myname").Expires=dateadd("m", 1, now())

or "d" for days, "h" hours, "n" minutes, "s" seconds

[coachdave]

Thank you for the suggestions, but I am still getting error messages.
I try
Response.Cookies("rtest1").Expires=dateadd("m",1,n ow());
and get
error 800a138f Object expected
I try
Response.Cookies("rtest1").Expires=now()+30 ;
and get
error 800a138f Object expected
I try
Response.Cookies("rtest1").Expires="exdate";
and get
error 800a000d Type mismatch (same as original attempt)
I try
Response.Cookies("rtest1').Expires="dateadd('m',1, now())";
and get
error 800a000d Type mismatch .
Anyone have any other suggestions?
Coachdave

[danp129]

response.cookies******** belongs within <% %> tags not in <script></script> tags. From the looks of things you are attempting to run this as a javascript instead of server-side ASP.

[coachdave]

I am running this on a server as server-side asp, BUT: you should know: I start out the page with
<%@Language=JScript%>
and much of the code, which works, is in fact javascript. What I am trying to add to the working code is this code about the cookie. I have found that, notwithstanding the errors, the cookie is being set - so the expiration time of the cookie is at least a few minutes.
In the past people have suggested statements like
set name= [the definition of....]
and also after a file variable has been declared and used,
set filename = nothing
but these have always produced error messages on my server, and I have assumed that is because these are vbscript syntax and dont compile in jscript.
When I use things like
var sqhist=""+Request.Form("qhist");
it compiles and runs correctly.
So - I set my cookie with
Response.Cookies("rtest1')="Testname"+tdata;
where tdata is defined in a previous statement. How do I make the cookie I set expire in one month? Coachdave

[jhardman]

I found this code example at a jsp tutorial site. Apparently in JSP the cookie life span is an integer number of seconds. go figure. I don't read jsp very well, so I'm not sure if this has what you are looking for, but let me know. click here

Jared

[coachdave]

Jared - and all others interested:
I dont know whether jsp is asp running Jscript or not, the code in your examples does not look familiar. At any rate, when I tried to use your example for setting a cookie, that is,
c=new Cookie("User"" etc. );
c,setMaxAge(60*24*60*60);
response.addCookie(c);
I get an error message 800a1391, "Cookie" is undefined, on the first line of that.
What does work is a suggestion from www.w3schools.com/asp.
Response.Cookies("test")=rdata;
Response.Cookies("test").Expires="July 29, 2007";
a LITERAL date. Elsewhere w3schools defines Expires as a Property, says it sets how long IN MINUTES "a page will be cached", but said nothing about cookies. When I tried
... .Expires=4400;
to get 3 days, I got an error message to the effect that I had tried to set a date "outside of the range of January 1, 1980 and October 13, 2038". Go figure. I could use the literal date method, but I would always have be going in and changing it. Anyone know a better way that works?
Coachdave

[jhardman]

I could use the literal date method, but I would always have be going in and changing it. Anyone know a better way that works?
Coachdave

No you don't, just make a literal date string in your page and use that to set the expire date:

futureDate = dateAdd("m", 1, date())
expDate = formatDateTime(futureDate, 1)
...
response.cookies("test").expires=exDate;

now I guess you will have to try to convert this to jscript... good luck

Jared