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VBScript to check for Cookies locally without going to the URL

To anyone,

I need to verify the existence of a cookie, but prefer not navigating to the site.

On the site in the ASP code we have when queried with https://Intro.url?intro=true:

     if (request.querystring("intro") = "true") then
            'write cookie file
            response.Cookies("IntroVideo") = "true"
            Response.Cookies("IntroVideo").Expires = "01 Jan 2014"

This sets the cookie for the user and works fine.. as going back to the page proves that...

Under the local script (.VBS) / wscript, the only way to verify the cookie exists is the below code:

Set msie = Wscript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
msie.visible = False
msie.Navigate "https://Intro.url"
Do While msie.Busy
      Sleep 20
Loop
IntroCookie = "NotHere"
IntroCookie= msIe.Document.cookie

In the IntroCookie is the contents of the cookie.

How can I prevent the need to navigate to the https://Intro.url, and just check if the cookie exists locally for the user??

If this cant be done via WScript, can someone let me know via what.

Cheers

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Roopesh Reddy

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Snappa2000

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This will show you the actual files listed in the cookies folder.. They are only DWERTHD.TXT type files, so I cant tell which one is the cookie for the site in reference.

If I can workout for https://Intro.url the corresponding cookie file is TYHSWRP.txt then its fine.. but this will different for every user and machine.

Roopesh Reddy

Hi,

I found that solution as the feasible one, other than the one which you have already implemented!

Moreover, you need site name to get the cookie information according to my knowledge. So i feel the original implementation should be fine in this scenario!

Hope it helps u...

Dirk Haest

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