I have an issue with trying to add a new name-pair to an existing
cookie. Here's what I want to do:

page1 -
adds "loggedin=true" to cookie "Communities"
adds "member_id=100" to cookie "Communities"

page2 -
adds "banner=1" to cookie "Communities"

page 3 -
reads cookie "Communities"

first I would run page 1, then page 2 and finally page 3

in original ASP if I did this page would show something like:
cookie name: "Communities"
cookie value: "loggedin=true&member_id&100&banner=1"

but in my ASP.NET (C#) scripts, page 3 shows:
cookie name: "Communities"
cookie value: "banner=1"

it seems page 2 overwrites the cookie. Is there any way to add the
name-pair from page 2 without overwriting those from page 1?

If necessary I will stop using collections and just make multiple
cookies with a common prefix (such as commLoggedIn, commBanner, etc),
but I'd really like to keep collections, and in my current ASP code
(which is being updated to .NET) I have multiple collections.

I guess I could try and write a function that is passed a new or
existing name-value pair; reads the current value of the collection and
adds each one back individually either updating one or adding a new
one, but that seems too much effort.

any help appreciated

you'd need to first extract the value of the cookie and append to it then
store it back.

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"Kevin Blount" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have an issue with trying to add a new name-pair to an existing
> cookie. Here's what I want to do:
>
> page1 -
> adds "loggedin=true" to cookie "Communities"
> adds "member_id=100" to cookie "Communities"
>
> page2 -
> adds "banner=1" to cookie "Communities"
>
> page 3 -
> reads cookie "Communities"
>
> first I would run page 1, then page 2 and finally page 3
>
> in original ASP if I did this page would show something like:
> cookie name: "Communities"
> cookie value: "loggedin=true&member_id&100&banner=1"
>
> but in my ASP.NET (C#) scripts, page 3 shows:
> cookie name: "Communities"
> cookie value: "banner=1"
>
> it seems page 2 overwrites the cookie. Is there any way to add the
> name-pair from page 2 without overwriting those from page 1?
>
> If necessary I will stop using collections and just make multiple
> cookies with a common prefix (such as commLoggedIn, commBanner, etc),
> but I'd really like to keep collections, and in my current ASP code
> (which is being updated to .NET) I have multiple collections.
>
> I guess I could try and write a function that is passed a new or
> existing name-value pair; reads the current value of the collection and
> adds each one back individually either updating one or adding a new
> one, but that seems too much effort.
>
> any help appreciated
>

Thanks for the reply.

I figured, after hours of research, that would be the case. Seems a
chame that in this case ASP.NET is a step back from original ASP, but
maybe I'm missing something as to why is had to be done this way.

cheers

Kevin

Alvin Bruney [MVP] wrote:
> you'd need to first extract the value of the cookie and append to it then
> store it back.
>
> --
> ________________________
> Warm regards,
> Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]
>
> [Shameless Author plug]
> Professional VSTO.NET - Wrox/Wiley
> The O.W.C. Black Book with .NET
> www.lulu.com/owc, Amazon
> Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/alvin
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