Cookies
First of all, what are cookies? No, we're not talking about the sort you eat!
Cookies are small pieces of information saved by the browser enabling websites
to remember your preferences (good), login information (hmm...), or track your
movements across the site (bad!).
Whatever your view on cookies, ASP provides full support for them, enabling
you, the webdesigner, to make the most out of them if you so wish.
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Note
A word of caution. Do not assume that your visitor will quite happily
accept the cookies...although no longer the default setting, web browsers
still allow users (quite rightly) to block cookies, and you should provide
an alternative!
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To save a value to a cookie, simply use this syntax:
Response.Cookies("CookieName") = Value
Once the cookie is saved, you can access it by using
Variable =
Request.Cookies("CookieName")
Note, however, that you cannot access the cookie from the same page you saved
it on. So, for example,
Response.Cookies("username") = Request.Form("username")
Response.Write "hello " & Request.Cookies("username")
would not work! Of course, if you re-load the same page after the cookie has
been saved, you will get access to that cookie.