Cookies C#

[Matt Jensen]

Howdy
I'm using these two functions I got off the web for cookies, but with a
problem:

public bool SetCookie(string cookiename, string cookievalue ,int
iDaysToExpire)
{
try{
HttpCookie objCookie = new HttpCookie(cookiename);
Response.Cookies.Clear();
Response.Cookies.Add(objCookie);
objCookie.Values.Add(cookiename,cookievalue);
DateTime dtExpiry = DateTime.Now.AddDays(iDaysToExpire);
Response.Cookies[cookiename].Expires =dtExpiry;
}
catch( Exception e){
return false;
}
return true;
}

public string GetCookie(string cookiename){
string cookyval="";
try{
cookyval= Request.Cookies[cookiename].Value;
}
catch(Exception e){
cookyval="";
}
return cookyval;
}


Howdy, if I set a cookie via say SetCookie("username", "test" ,30)

and then try to get the value using GetCookie("username")
the value returned is username=test
when I actually just want test.

How do I get this, or what am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Matt

 

[Mark Rae]

Howdy, if I set a cookie via say SetCookie("username", "test" ,30)

and then try to get the value using GetCookie("username")
the value returned is username=test
when I actually just want test.

How do I get this, or what am I doing wrong?

That's just how a cookie is structured - just separate the name part from
the value part and keep the value part. You could use Split() to convert the
cookie into a string array, or just use Substring to return everything after
the equals sign.

 

[Matt Jensen]

Thanks a lot Mark

I considered that option, however I thought there must be a simpler way
because it seems like a bit of a kludge, I thought that surely you can get
the value part of the name/value pair somehow?

You could do it in classic ASP, just getting the 'subkey' value of the
cookie eg. Request.Cookies("username")("username")

I'll see what I can find out
Matt

 

[Matt Jensen]

Request.Cookies["username"]["username"]
worked!

Thanks a lot Mark

I considered that option, however I thought there must be a simpler way
because it seems like a bit of a kludge, I thought that surely you can get
the value part of the name/value pair somehow?

You could do it in classic ASP, just getting the 'subkey' value of the
cookie eg. Request.Cookies("username")("username")

I'll see what I can find out
Matt