Q5806 How do I set a cookie?

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ASP can set cookies quite easily. They are implemented as a collection in the ASP Response object, so you merely specify the name of the item in that collection and set it's value :

<%

' SET A TEXT STRING
Response.Cookies("myCookie") = "this value"

' SET THE RETURN OF A FUNCTION
Response.Cookies("myCookie2") = Now()

%>

Returning them is also easy:

<%

Response.Write Request.Cookies("myCookie") & "<br>"
Response.Write Request.Cookies("myCookie2")

%>

Alternately, if you are setting LOTS of cookies (tsk-tsk), you can
use the fact that they are in a collection to return them all:

<%

' cookie IS JUST AN ARBITRARY VARIABLE NAME
For each cookie in Request.Cookies
 Response.Write cookie & " = " &
 Request.Cookies(cookie) & "<br>"
Next

%>