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Topic: asp deleting cookies

Posted By: riya_singtel
Subject: asp deleting cookies
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 9:57pm

I am working on cookies in asp and I need an option to delete the cookie when a button is clicked. So i just write an empty string in it.

I set the cookies as:

Response.Cookies("name")="Henry"

The code for button is:

The code for deleting the value is:

Sub RemoveCookie

document.cookie = "name="

End Sub

</SCRIPT>

However I realise that this creates a duplicate cookie named name without any value( Checked it by retrieving all cookies).I guess one copy is created at the client and other at the server which gives me erroneous results when i access the value of the cookie later.

I can reset the value of the cookie uisng Response.Cookies but i do not know how to implement it on a button click.

Any proposed solns shall be appreciated.

thanks

Replies:

Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 11:09pm

Google is your friend

http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/functions.html - http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/functions.html

/*
   name - name of the cookie
   [path] - path of the cookie (must be same as path used to create cookie)
   [domain] - domain of the cookie (must be same as domain used to
     create cookie)
   path and domain default if assigned null or omitted if no explicit
     argument proceeds
*/

function deleteCookie(name, path, domain) {
  if (getCookie(name)) {
    document.cookie = name + "=" +
    ((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") +
    ((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") +
    "; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-70 00:00:01 GMT";
  }
}

Posted By: riya_singtel
Date Posted: 31 March 2005 at 4:29am

thanks...i'll try it out and let u know..