How do you read persistent cookies?

[Brian Kitt]

Ok. I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I'm really beside myself
here. I've worked with cookies for years, so I know how they work, but I am
new to C#, so apparently I'm doing something wrong with C#.

I'm saving a cookie (user preferences) that I want to load again the next
time a user visits my site. I know it's saving correctly, I can see it in
the temporary internet files. But my first page (Default.aspx) is trying to
read it from Request.Cookies and it's not there. There must be a trick to
reading in this cookie file. Ok. What is the trick? How do I pull the
saved cookies back in and/or how do I read them?

[John the Newbie]

Brian,

I found the following on http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive179.html:

HttpCookie cookie = Request.Cookies[strCookieName];
String strCookieValue = cookie.Value.To String();

HTH,
John

"Brian Kitt" wrote:

Ok. I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I'm really beside myself
here. I've worked with cookies for years, so I know how they work, but I am
new to C#, so apparently I'm doing something wrong with C#.

I'm saving a cookie (user preferences) that I want to load again the next
time a user visits my site. I know it's saving correctly, I can see it in
the temporary internet files. But my first page (Default.aspx) is trying to
read it from Request.Cookies and it's not there. There must be a trick to
reading in this cookie file. Ok. What is the trick? How do I pull the
saved cookies back in and/or how do I read them?

[Boyan]

Hi, Brian, have you checked whether you cookie has expired?

"Brian Kitt" wrote:

Ok. I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I'm really beside myself
here. I've worked with cookies for years, so I know how they work, but I am
new to C#, so apparently I'm doing something wrong with C#.

I'm saving a cookie (user preferences) that I want to load again the next
time a user visits my site. I know it's saving correctly, I can see it in
the temporary internet files. But my first page (Default.aspx) is trying to
read it from Request.Cookies and it's not there. There must be a trick to
reading in this cookie file. Ok. What is the trick? How do I pull the
saved cookies back in and/or how do I read them?

[www.VoiceInformation.com]

Here's some sample C# cookie code that is working for me:

Sample C# Code:
const stringNAME_COOK IE = "YourCookieName ";
const stringNAME_USER ID = "inpUserIDField ";
const stringNAME_SERV ER = "inpServerField ";

private void Page_Load(objec t sender, System.EventArg s e)
{
// Retrieve settings from last visit
try
{
if (Request.Cookie s != null)
{
inpUserID.Value =
Server.HtmlEnco de(Request.Cook ies[NAME_COOKIE][NAME_USERID]).ToString();
inpServer.Value =
Server.HtmlEnco de(Request.Cook ies[NAME_COOKIE][NAME_SERVER]).ToString();
}
}
catch {}
}

private void Submit_ServerCl ick(object sender, System.EventArg s e)
{
// Save user settings
try
{
Response.Cookie s[NAME_COOKIE][NAME_USERID] = inpUserID.Value ;
Response.Cookie s[NAME_COOKIE][NAME_SERVER] = inpServer.Value ;
Response.Cookie s[NAME_COOKIE].Expires = DateTime.MaxVal ue;
}
catch {}
}
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