ASP.NET Cookies Problem. 2

[jrapp]

Hey everybody. The program that i'm writing makes use of cookies to track logins. When I run it from my machine (the "server") as

http://localhost/app/default.aspx,

the cookies save fine. When I try to run it from another machine, or even mine by going to

http://my_computer/app/default.aspx,

the cookies no longer work and I get a "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error. Here's what my code looks like:

'Now we make a small cookie to track the user.
Dim loginCookie As New HttpCookie("Login")

loginCookie.Values.Add("LoggedIn", "TRUE")
loginCookie.Values.Add("StoreID", storeID)
loginCookie.Values.Add("UserType", userType)
loginCookie.Domain = "my_computer"

Response.AppendCookie(loginCookie)

'Read the cookie
Dim loginCookie As New HttpCookie("Login")
loginCookie = Request.Cookies("Login")
Response.Write(loginCookie("LoggedIn") & "<BR>")
Response.Write(loginCookie("StoreID") & "<BR>")
Response.Write(loginCookie("UserType"))

The second line of the "read the cookie" is what throws the exception. I know there's no error checking on this, I'm just trying to get it running. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Jeff Rapp
jrapp@sell2all.com

 

[Joulius]

As I know, there's an issue in ASP.NET (or Win2003 Server ... I can't remember exactly) with cookies when the server name contains the character "_". It sounds odd, but I can bet anything that if you'll change the name of your machine from "my_computer" to "mycomputer" (or any other word that not contains the character "_") it will work.

 

[jrapp]

That was the problem. I'm using XP for my test server, so it must be a problem in asp.net. That is possibly the strangest error I've seen yet, definately a bug. Thanks for the help!

Jeff Rapp
jrapp@sell2all.com

 

[yu217171]

Wow, this really is weird. Is this a bug of the .NET framework itself or XP?

Keith

 

[sweth]

Why not make use of .net built in authentication.
Form authentication gives you the way exactly what you are trying to do.

 

[Joulius]

It seems that there's a problem about session objects too, not only with cookies.

 

[CamyBitz]

Joulius, you have solved my problem!