Using Cookies for Saving Information

Cookies are pieces of information that a user’s browser can hold and that can have a maximum size of 4 Kbytes. Each time the browser opens your web application, it recalls all cookies provided by the website. The following are examples of writing and reading cookies:

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 'Write a cookieDim aCookie As New HttpCookie("MyCookie")aCookie.Value = "Information to store"aCookie.Expires = New DateTime(10, 10, 2010)Response.Cookies.Add(aCookie) 'Read a cookieDim getCookie As HttpCookie = Request.Cookies("MyCookie")Dim cookieVale As String = getCookie.Value

Notice that the Expires property of type Date is required to specify that the cookie information will no longer be valid after that date, ...

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