using _ in cookie names

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Kevin Blount

I have an existing site that's being update from ASP to ASP.NET (C#).
The site uses cookies and I've having trouble reading them.

For example, one Cookie created using ASP was "member_id", and using
ASP I simply get the value using 'request.cookies("member_id")'

However, using C# I have to replace '_' with '%5F' or it won't get
read, i.e.

string tempVar = Request.Cookies["member%5Fid"]

is this expected, or is there a way to locate the cookie more easily,
i.e. with the underscore character?

tia
 
Kevin,
not to sound blunt but, why not just avoid using problematic cookie names in
the first place?
Peter
 
As previously stated, this is an existing site that's being updated, so
I have to use and cater for cookies created by that existing site.
Obviously I can't go to all previous visitors to our site and
rename/update their cookies, so I have to use existing cookies with _
char in them..

now that we're over that.. any ideas?
Kevin,
not to sound blunt but, why not just avoid using problematic cookie names in
the first place?
Peter

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Kevin Blount said:
I have an existing site that's being update from ASP to ASP.NET (C#).
The site uses cookies and I've having trouble reading them.

For example, one Cookie created using ASP was "member_id", and using
ASP I simply get the value using 'request.cookies("member_id")'

However, using C# I have to replace '_' with '%5F' or it won't get
read, i.e.

string tempVar = Request.Cookies["member%5Fid"]

is this expected, or is there a way to locate the cookie more easily,
i.e. with the underscore character?

tia
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Good call, but unfortunately that didn't work. Thanks for the idea
though
Can you use [@"member_id"] ???

Sa


Kevin Blount said:
I have an existing site that's being update from ASP to ASP.NET (C#).
The site uses cookies and I've having trouble reading them.

For example, one Cookie created using ASP was "member_id", and using
ASP I simply get the value using 'request.cookies("member_id")'

However, using C# I have to replace '_' with '%5F' or it won't get
read, i.e.

string tempVar = Request.Cookies["member%5Fid"]

is this expected, or is there a way to locate the cookie more easily,
i.e. with the underscore character?

tia
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Kevin Blount said:
string tempVar = Request.Cookies["member%5Fid"]
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I suppose that the Cookie-names are not URL-decoded.

You could write it a little bit more readable by using
string tempVar = Rquest.Cookies[Server.UrlEncode("member_id")];

Best regards,
Martin
 
Martin said:
string tempVar = Rquest.Cookies[Server.UrlEncode("member_id")];
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Unfortunately that didn't work either, Martin, but it's around where I
was looking. I just tried using Server.HtmlEncode as well, but neither
return the value of the that cookie.

Oh well..going forward I will be using .NET friendly names, but I'll
have to have to stick with %2f for existing ones.

Thanks for trying all.
 
Kevin Blount said:
Martin said:
string tempVar = Rquest.Cookies[Server.UrlEncode("member_id")];
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Unfortunately that didn't work either, Martin, but it's around where I
was looking. I just tried using Server.HtmlEncode as well, but neither
return the value of the that cookie.
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Oh, I see, Server.UrlEncode seems to return lower-case characters, while
you are needing upper case... Sorry, missed that one.

Best regards,
Martin
 
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