ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

Cookies

Synopsis

HttpCookieCollection = Request.Cookies

The Cookies collection returns an instance of the HttpCookieCollection class containing all cookies sent as a part of the current request. The HttpCookieCollection class contains an instance of the HttpCookie class for each cookie passed as part of the client request. The properties of these HttpCookie instances can be used to access information about the cookie(s).

As in classic ASP, the Cookies collection is still implemented as a collection (in fact, the HttpCookieCollection inherits from the .NET NameObjectCollectionBase class), but rather than a collection of string keys and string values, the ASP.NET implementation is a collection of string keys and objects (instances of the HttpCookie class). Individual cookies are retrieved into variables of type HttpCookie, providing access to the cookies’ values through class properties.

Dictionary-style cookies (cookies with more than one value) are accessible through the Values property of the HttpCookie class, which returns a NameValueCollection containing the cookie subkeys and values. You can also retrieve individual values by their key with the following syntax:

HttpCookie.Values("keyname")

Parameters

HttpCookieCollection

An Object variable of type HttpCookieCollection.

Example

The example retrieves the collection of cookies from the Cookies property and writes out the key and value of each, along with any subkeys of dictionary cookies:

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