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Cookie appending problem
I am modifying an ASP program and need to add a cookie which will keep track of where a person as last visited. Lets say the Cookie will be called loc.
With the following code getting executed whenever a user changes his location:
Response.Cookies("loc") = locID
Response.Cookies("loc").Ex
locID is a varible which can run from 1 to 12. On the first save of this cookie, it does OK. After than it appends the came name in the cookie with the new value. Thus you have after the second selection, 2 enties for loc. In retrieving the cookie for loc, it reads the first occurrence. What is the way to prevent having the multiple entries for the same cookie?
With the following code getting executed whenever a user changes his location:
Response.Cookies("loc") = locID
Response.Cookies("loc").Ex
locID is a varible which can run from 1 to 12. On the first save of this cookie, it does OK. After than it appends the came name in the cookie with the new value. Thus you have after the second selection, 2 enties for loc. In retrieving the cookie for loc, it reads the first occurrence. What is the way to prevent having the multiple entries for the same cookie?
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- name
- domain (default: domain of the server, e.g. yahoo.com)
- path (default: root - all scripts in the domain have access to the cookie)
If you are creating cookies from different domains [or subdomains!] (your scripts are in different domains), then it might be the problem - in fact, you are creating two different cookies (with the same name, but different domains). Try explicitly change the Domain and Path properties of the cookies to information, that is common to all scripts. If your scripts are in domains aaa.domain.com and bb.domain.com, then the domain should be set to domain.com. Path should be set to "/".
Regards.
P.