HttpCookie Read/Write problem

Question

User1626053192 posted

Hi,

I've been searching a solution for this problem but i couldn't have one. By the way i can't understand the reason of my problem.

The problem is: 

My web application has a login page and gets logged user id from cookie. It worked before but 5-6 days ago because of something changed it didn't worked with IE. Now it doesn't work with any browser.

I can see the cookie in Chrome. When looked with Internet Explorer Developer Tool sometimes the cookie written but still can't read by IE

Here is my code

                  

                string uId = "userID";
                DateTime expireDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(3);

                HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies["cookieName"]["uID"] = uId;
                HttpCookie aCookie = new HttpCookie("cookieName");
                
                aCookie.Values["uID"] = uId;
                aCookie.Path = "/";
                aCookie.Expires = expireDate;
                aCookie.HttpOnly = false;
                aCookie.Domain = "domainname.com";
                aCookie.Name = "cookieName";
                HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies.Add(aCookie);

 

This web.config cookie tag

<httpCookies domain=".domainname.com" httpOnlyCookies="false" requireSSL="false" />

My web app is on Windows Server 2008 R2 BTW

Answer 1

User2037636850 posted

hi bratupetre,

I think this could be your IE8 dev tool problem, have you tired update your dev server with latest windows/IE updates?

some people say that delete your browser history & cookies will help.

i don't think there is anything wrong with your code, unless you can't read your cookie info from

Request.Cookies

hope it helps

James

Answer 2

User1626053192 posted

Hi James,

I've tried with many PC's and many browser like IE 8-9, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera. Sometimes login process completed without a problem but generally can't login because can't seting or reading cookie

This is my request code:

            if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["cookieName"] != null)
            {
                System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection UserInfoCookieCollection;

                UserInfoCookieCollection = HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["cookieName"].Values;
     

                userID = HttpContext.Current.Server.HtmlEncode(UserInfoCookieCollection["uID"]);
 
            }

Answer 3

User1626053192 posted

This is the scenario

> trying to log in

> SetCookie method triggered

> End of SetCookie method there are two cookies "cookieName" and "ASP.NET SessionId"

> GetCookie method triggered

> There is only "ASP.NET SessionId" and session value still same

Answer 4

User2037636850 posted

Hi,

can you try remove these two line from web.config and your code, and see if you can read your cookie now?

<httpCookies domain=".domainname.com" httpOnlyCookies="false" requireSSL="false" />
aCookie.Domain = "domainname.com";

I suspect it has something to do with domainname.com you entered. If above works, now try put them back but without "." in front of your domain property in web.config. just put domainname.com for wildcard domain

Let me know how it goes

James

Answer 5

User1626053192 posted

Tried but still same :(