Check Yes/No cookies enabled?

[Guest]

It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a person's
web browser and based on this check send him to another page which does not
support cookies (ie login?)?

Thanks
Jason

 

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

http://www.aspfaq.com/2058

 

[Guest]

This seems similiar to this article which points out it the process could be
ruined by caching and the fact that it uses up server resources:

http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/cookiedetect/default.asp

Would you advise using this approach to allow user to bypass login screen if
he is present in database?

 

[Guest]

Does this solution also hold true for users whose browsers have cookies
enabled but have turned them off?

 

[Evertjan.]

wrote on 05 aug 2004 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

It is possible to check via ASP whether cookies are enabled for a
person's web browser and based on this check send him to another page
which does not support cookies (ie login?)?

<http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=ASP+whether+cookies+are+enabled>

 

[Aaron [SQL Server MVP]]

Yes. It would probably take you all of 45 seconds to verify that for
yourself, though... ;-)

Remember, it is not checking a setting, it is setting a cookie and then
trying to read it! Whether they have a browser that doesn't support
cookies, or it does but they turned them off, the result will be the same,
no?

 

[Guest]

I guess you are right...

...as usual!

Yes. It would probably take you all of 45 seconds to verify that for
yourself, though... ;-)

Remember, it is not checking a setting, it is setting a cookie and then
trying to read it! Whether they have a browser that doesn't support
cookies, or it does but they turned them off, the result will be the same,
no?