newby C# web app cookie question

[Fred Nelson]

Hi:

I'm developing a web application that needs to have five values, each
retrieved from cookies on many pages.

If I have five "Request.Cookies" commands together does this cause five
"round trips" to the browser or am I accessing one instance.

If five round trips occur then I will develop some parsing algorithm to
save everything I need in one cookie.

Thanks for your help and suggestons!

Fred

 

[KJ]

The cookies are transmitted in the "cookie header," so they are all
transmitted in each request.

 

[Fred Nelson]

KJ:

Thanks for your reply!

Does this mean that I should have five Request.Cookies commands in a row

ex:

Request.Cookies["value1"].Value.ToString();
Request.Cookies["value2"].Value.ToString();
Request.Cookies["value3"].Value.ToString();

and not suffer a penalty

Or is there a way to perform only one request and retrive all cookies at
once?

Thanks again for your help with this "newby" question!

Fred

 

[KJ]

Hi, there is no penalty for accessing the Cookies object. It is already
populated when you are in the context of server-side code. Remember
that the "user agent" (a.k.a. Internet Explorer) makes the request, not
the server-side code. The server code runs in response to that request.

 

[Fred Nelson]

KJ:

Thanks VERY much for your help!

Fred