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Web Engineering II: Adnan Amin

The document discusses cookies and how they can be used with ASP.NET. Cookies allow storing small amounts of data on a user's computer and accessing it across multiple pages and visits. The document covers how to create, read, modify and delete cookies using ASP.NET, including setting expiration dates and accessing cookie subkeys. It also notes some limitations of cookies, such as size and storage limits and that they are controlled by the user's browser.

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Web Engineering II: Adnan Amin

The document discusses cookies and how they can be used with ASP.NET. Cookies allow storing small amounts of data on a user's computer and accessing it across multiple pages and visits. The document covers how to create, read, modify and delete cookies using ASP.NET, including setting expiration dates and accessing cookie subkeys. It also notes some limitations of cookies, such as size and storage limits and that they are controlled by the user's browser.

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Web Engineering‐II  

Using ASP.net 

By
Adnan Amin
Lecturer / Software programmer
Information and Communication Technology (ICT-Dept)
www.geoamins.com
Why cookies.
• Cookies seem to solve the problem of moving data
from page to page.

• Cookies can be stored so that it remains there after


the user leaves your site and will still be available
when the user entered your web site a hour, day, or
month later.

• Cookies were originally designed for storing small


amounts of information for short periods of time.

By: Adnan Amin


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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Introduction to cookies 
• The place (file) which can store small amounts of
information that containing variable=value pairs.

• The user’s browser stores cookies on the user’s


computer.

• The stored data can use again and again until the
cookies is available on the user’s computer.

• Cookies should be used only to store non-sensitive


information, or information that can be retrieved from
an authoritative source. Cookies shouldn’t be trusted.

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Limitations of cookies 
• Cookies are not under your control. They are under the user’s
control.
• The user can at any time delete the cookie.
• Users can set their browsers to refuse to allow any cookies.

• Many users do refuse cookies or routinely delete them.

• Many users are not comfortable with the idea of a stranger


storing things on their computers.

• Cookie size is limited to 4096 bytes. It is not much, so cookies


are used to store small amounts of data, often just user id.

• Also, number of cookies is limited to 20 per website. If you


make new cookie when you already have 20 cookies, browser
will delete oldest one
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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Remember
• When you store information in cookies,
remember that it’s quite different from
storing data in the Session object:
To see where IE 7 & 8 stores its Cookies in Windows Vista / 7 :  
  
Open Explorer > Organize > Folder Options > Views > Check ʹDo not show 
hidden files and foldersʹ and Uncheck ʹHide protected OS filesʹ > Apply > OK. 

Now you will be able to see the two real locations of Vistaʹs Cookies folders. 
  
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies  

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Cookies Terminologies 
• READING COOKIES
• Read cookies using Request.Cookies
collection
o Request is actually an HTTPRequest object
o Each object is a HTTPCookiesCollection consisting of
HTTPCookie objects.

• WRITING COOKIES
• Response is actually an HTTPResponse object.

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Create an instance of a cookie then 
add it to the collection. 
• Dim cookie As HttpCookie = New HttpCookie("myCookie")
• cookie.Value = Me.TextBox1.Text
• cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1)
• Response.Cookies.Add(cookie)

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Create directly cookie for 
the same user. 
• Response.Cookies("UserID").Value = TextBox1.Text
• Response.Cookies("UserID").Expires =
DateTime.Now.AddDays(1)

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Create an instance of a cookie, 
then add two subkeys, and add 
it to the collection. 
• Dim cookie1 As HttpCookie = New
HttpCookie("UserData")
• cookie1.Values("LastVisit") =
DateTime.Now.ToString()
• cookie1.Values("UserID") = TextBox1.Text
• cookie1.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1)
• Response.Cookies.Add(cookie1)

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Read a cookie by creating 
an instance of the cookie. 
• If Not Request.Cookies("myCookie") Is Nothing Then
• Dim cookie As HttpCookie =
Request.Cookies("myCookie")
• Label2.Text = cookie.Value
• Else
• Label2.Text = "the cookie is not found"
• End If

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Read a cookie value directly, 
encoding it for safety. 
• If Not Request.Cookies("UserID") Is Nothing Then
• Label3.Text = Request.Cookies("UserID").Value
• End If

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Read a subkey value in a 
cookie directly. 
• If Not Request.Cookies("UserData") Is Nothing Then
• Label4.Text = Request.Cookies("UserData")("UserID")
• Label5.Text = Request.Cookies("UserData")("LastVisit")
• End If

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Delete a cookie by setting 
the expiration to a 
previous date/time. 

• Response.Cookies(“myCookie").Expires =
DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1)

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
How to check does visitorʹs 
web browser supports cookies 
• If Request.Browser.Cookies Then
' Cookies supported
Else
' Web browser not supports cookies
End If

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Delete a Subkey value by 
removing it. 

Response.Cookies("UserData").Values.Remove("LastVisit")

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(Lecturer/Programmer)
Thank You! 

By: Adnan Amin


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(Lecturer/Programmer)

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