Passing cookies in Response.Redirect

Question

I work with Classic ASP (vbscript), I add cookies to the Response like so:

Response.Cookies("mycookie") = "var_cookie"

Then I issue a redirect to "etape2.asp" file:

Response.Redirect("etape2.asp");

On the new page ("etape2.asp") that I am redirected to, I try to retrieve a cookie like so:

Request.Cookies("mycookie");

But the cookie is empty!!

Can anyone think of why the cookies are not being passed?

Answer 1

Might be worthwhile making sure you have set an expiry for the cookie far enough in advance, and set the path to which it applies:

So, in eg etape1.asp, do this...

var_cookie_mycookie                   =  "this is the contents of mycookie"

response.cookies("mycookie").expires  =  now + 1
response.cookies("mycookie").path     =  "/"
response.cookies("mycookie")          =  trim(cstr("" & var_cookie_mycookie))

response.redirect                        "etape2.asp"

And in etape2.asp, do this...

var_cookie_mycookie                   =  trim(cstr("" & request.cookies("mycookie")))

response.write                           "<p>Value of 'mycookie' cookie: " &_
                                         server.htmlencode(var_cookie_mycookie) &_
                                         "</p>"