Problem writing Cookie

[firestoper]

Hi Guru's I'm having problem on writing cookie, not on the code but I can't seem to find the actual cookie file that was created, I also tried to placed the cookie path to my project folder but I still can't seem to find the cookie that was created. Below is my code for creating cookie. Am I doing something wrong? Please advice Dim bcap As HttpBrowserCapabilities Dim bookmarkCookie As HttpCookie bcap = Request.Browser If Not bcap.Cookies = True Then wc_header.setError("Cannot bookmark page, Cookie is not enabled in this browser") Return False Else bookmarkCookie = New HttpCookie("pageBookmark") bookmarkCookie.Path = Server.MapPath("../") bookmarkCookie("pageID" & pID) = CType(pID, String) bookmarkCookie.Expires = Now.AddDays(1) Request.Cookies.Add(bookmarkCookie) Return True End If

[Mircea Grelus]

Cookies are saved in special folders on users computes and you cannot change this (well, you can if you change the registry settings on every machine for the cookies folder). The usual folder in which cookies are saved is _[WINdrive]_:\Documents and Settings\_[user name]_\Cookies

Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

[firestoper]

Thanks Mircea, I tried looking on the path you suggested but there seems to be no cookie folder, I also tried viewing hidden folders but still no luck, I don't know if its on the code although writing cookie is pretty straight forward. Dom

[Mircea Grelus]

Yes, adding a cookie is straightforward. You just have to add it to the request. I noticed you are setting the Path property to your cookie. The path describes the url to which the cookie applies. The best thing to do is set the cookie from a page in the root folder and remove the Path property from your code.

Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

[firestoper]

Hmm the path points to where the cookie will be created bookmarkCookie.Path = Server.MapPath("../") I replaced it to more a specific location but nada.. no cookie :( bookmarkCookie.Path = Server.MapPath("../_cookies") What do you mean by Set the cookie from a page in the root folder are you suggesting that I should place the page that writes cookie to the root? Please advice Dom

[Mircea Grelus]

firestoper wrote:

Hmm the path points to where the cookie will be created

NO. The Path property indicates the path for which the cookie will be created. (path in your website structure)

firestoper wrote:

What do you mean by Set the cookie from a page in the root folder are you suggesting that I should place the page that writes cookie to the root?

Either place the page in teh root or place the code that creates the cookie in a page from the root. And remove the Path property from your code.

Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

[firestoper]

I just place the page where calls the writing of cookie file, also I removed the path location, but no cookies was generation on the root folder. Does the page needed to be on a live webserver to generation cookies? or does this run on local web instance? huhu.. Dom

[Mircea Grelus]

firestoper wrote:

Does the page needed to be on a live webserver to generation cookies?

No. Cookies are generated on localhost as well.

firestoper wrote:

I just place the page where calls the writing of cookie file, also I removed the path location, but no cookies was generation on the root folder.

You just don't get it. Cookies are generated in SPECIAL FOLDERS according to the type of browser you use. Not in your website. The browser that you use decides where it stores them. Use this tool[^] to find the path where the cookie is generated if you use Internet Explorer as the browser.

Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

[firestoper]

Thank you for the help Mircea, I've been using firefox sorry for that, I downloaded the app that you've gave and run the cookie page on IE browser. I checked on my cookie folder (that was shown on special folder location app) but can't find the cookie I created. To make sure I run a cookie checking script to see if there was a cookie generated, but it skipped the condition which means no cookie was created, below is my code: pageBookmarkcookie = Request.Cookies("pageBookmark") If pageBookmarkcookie IsNot Nothing Then For x As Integer = 0 To pageBookmarkcookie.Values.Count - 1 Response.Write(pageBookmarkcookie.Values(x)) Next else response.write("no cookie found") End If regards Dom