asked on 10/8/2011

Need to use a cookie with MVC3

I have an MVC3 application that uses JavaScript and jQury. I need to use a cookie to record certain values from the last user's session. So I have a few questions:

1) If the data is to be stored in the database, via the Model, is there any reason for a cookie?
2) Can I do 100% of the coe in JavaScript and just leave the data on the user's disk as a cookie with no involvement of the Model?

Please provide the code to do this in JavaScript, in the event I decide to do this client side and not involve the Model.

Thanks.

ASP.NET JavaScript C#

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curiouswebster

10/11/2011

ToddBeaulieu

10/10/2011

You could do it either way. If you're using a membership provider that handles remembering who the user is (identifying them) then you probably wouldn't need to save the data on the client.

A recent project needed to remember the user w/o a provider in the mix, so we used a cookie.

There are tons of examples on writing a cookie from js so I won't bother posting the links. A quick search will get you there.

You can also write a cookie from the controller like this:

Response.Cookies["mycookie"].Value = "myvalue";

curiouswebster

10/10/2011

ASKER

Ok, thanks. It seems that creating a cookie in the controller saves the effort of coding methods in the Model and needing to create a new table, and possible sprocs, right?

What other code have you got handy for creating, writing to and reading from the cookie, using MVC?

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

ToddBeaulieu

10/10/2011