ASP Cookie Question

**dprichard** · 07-22-2004, 01:28 PM

I built two pages. One is on an ASP machine and the other one is on a PHP server. The first page has the following code:

Code:

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
Response.Cookies("testcookie")="testcookievalue"
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL=http://www.leadershippinellas.com/test.php">
</body>
</html>

I am trying to pass this cookie from an ASP page to a PHP page. Here is the code I am using on the PHP page:

Code:

<html>
<body><?php
if (isset($_COOKIE["testcookie"]))
echo "Welcome " . $_COOKIE["testcookie"] . "!<br />";
else
echo "You are not logged in!<br />";
?></body>
</html>

I can't get it to see the cookie? Is this even possible?

**ACW** · 01:56 PM

Cookies are domain specific and if I understand you correctly you have 2 different machines with 2 different URLs.

You should be able to set a cookie in an ASP page and retrieve it in a PHP page in the same domain. But you can't do it across domains - it is a security feature.

**wfpeyton** · 08-25-2004, 04:58 PM

From your code it would appear the you have not set a timeout for the cookie. This means that it will disappear instantly when you leave the page.

To expire a cookie one year from a specific date (DT), you should use a line like:

Response.Cookies("CookieName").Expires=dateAdd("yy yy", 1, DT)

Regards,

**melfan** · 08-26-2004, 11:53 AM

ACW is right you can only pass cookies thoughout different server pages if it is on the same server.