ASP Tutorial: Creating & Retrieving Cookies using ASP

This tutorial show how to create & Retrieve cookies using ASP.

<%
Response.Cookies("Expertsforge")=1
Response.Cookies("Expertsforge").Expires="June 15, 2005"
%>

By adding this code to the top of your page you will drop a cookie on the
client. One way to use this is to determine if a user has been to your
site before. This cookie is set to expire on June 15 2005.

Now if you want the cookie to expire when they leave just dont give it an
expiration like so:

<%
Response.Cookies("Expertsforge")=1
%>

Heres how to read the cookie and use it to display a greeting:

<%
If Request.Cookies("Expertsforge") = 1 Then
greet = "Welcome Back To Expertsforge"
Else
greet = "Welcome To Expertsforge!"
End If
Response.Write greet
Response.Cookies("Expertsforge")=1
Response.Cookies(Expertsforge").Expires="June 15, 2005"
%>

Now you will note that I set the cookie AFTER I checked for it. This is
because if we write the cookie before checking, it would always say
Welcome Back.

Theres the basic recipe for cookies.