VB - reproduce browser cookie list

[pod]

Is there a way to list all the cookies that are attached to a browser?

I am trying to reproduce the browser cookie list and have search the internet for that script, I have tried some but to no avail...


I would really appreciate if someone could enlighten me on this

I ran the following code but it only shows me the cookie that it belongs to (localhost), and I know there are a lot more cookies that the localhost one:

For Each Key in Request.Cookies()
 
      tempvalue=trim(request.Cookies(Key))
         response.write "request.Cookies(" & quote 
         response.write Key & quote & ") "
         response.write " =<br><B>" & tempvalue & "</b><p>" & vbcrlf
Next
 

Thanks,

P:oD

[jeffstl]

I could be wrong about the following, so someone please correct me if I am.

I believe in run time when you are executing a request.cookies you are only accessing the cookies tied to that particular session of the user (Cookies your app created with response.cookie) Not ALL the cookies on that users machine.

If you need to be able to view all the cookies on that users machine you would need to probably use the File System Object and read the cookie files individually from C:\Documents and Settings\username\Cookies

Though I am not sure that will be accessible for all users depending on browser and PC.

If you are using Windows XP\IE you can browse to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Cookies to view the cookie files on your PC.

[DrBunchman]

As far as I know cookies are restricted by the domain that created them so you cannot access all the cookies on a client machine because most of them were created by other domains.

Out of interest, why would you want to do this?

Dr B

[DrBunchman]

If you need to be able to view all the cookies on that users machine you would need to probably use the File System Object and read the cookie files individually from C:\Documents and Settings\username\Cookies

Just a quick note after seeing Jeff's comments to say that you can only read the cookies folder of machines which are accessible from your server.

You cannot access a machine's file system through the client for obvious security reasons.

Dr B

[pod]

Thank you for your replies

To answer your query Doc, I am developing a web application (mywebApp) that among other things opens up a browser to a website (aHelpSite) where I want to retrieve a specific record, (using and ID number in the URL query string). But the site requires a login and I have no control on the site.

So I wanted to detect if the user was already logged in (aHelpSite), i.e. see if there is a aHelpSite cookie.

I think I will keep it simple and warn the user to login into aHelpSite before using the link.