Client Side Cookies

[spazman]

I set a cookie using VBScript(client side), okay fine no problem I can read it with client side scripts etc etc. But In the ASP code that the page posts too I want to kill the cookie, but When I do a Response.Cookies("DMatter&quot = "", the cookie still has value of what it was set too in the client side script. Correct me if I;m wrong but isn;t a cookie a cookie? Set at the server or client either should be able to access the other.

Am I missing somthing?

 

[mwolf00]

I believe that the server-side cookies are completely different from the client-side ones. I have tried something similar and found that I needed to set the "expires=" to date-1 (yesterday) on the client-side cookie...

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[spazman]

Well I never would have guessed. I just tested this, I did a response.write to write the client side cookies and no results!

 

[mwolf00]

We know that client-side cookies reside on the client's pc, but where do server-side cookies reside? I'm guessing that you use the Request and Response objects to manipulate them, they also reside on the client's pc. You just cannot access them with client-side scripts - they are just sent along with all of the header info when your PC requests a page...

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook

 

[spazman]

Well I don't know, I wrote a page that displays back all the info in a the users cookies, I use this for testing. It's a server side (ASP) so it uses Response. and Request. to access/manipulate the cookies I went to this page today and the cookie I sent with a client side script shows in that list, with a value.

My thinking after posting was that a client-cide cookie would not be readable by a server side script due to security or privacy concerns, but this doesn't seem to be the case with my cookies.asp reading my client set cookie. As well I just tested the other way a client side script reading a server side cookie and it was read.

I think initialing what I was doing I was doing wrong, thus I thought that there may be a differnec in client set and server set cookies.

In answer to your question cookies that are longer than the session are stored in a txt file on your hard drive, I.E. Cookies that have a an expiry date, cookies without an expiry date expire when you close the browser, so I would assume thay are stored in memory. If you'd like the code to view cookies with client side script let me know I will post it.