I'm looking to grab cookie values for the same domain within a Flash movie. Is this possible? Let's see I let a user set a variable foo and I store it using any web programming language. I can access it easily via that language, but I would like to access it via the Flash movie without passing it in via printing it within the HTML pag...
I am receiving the expcetion CGI::Session::CookieStore::TamperedWithCookie after changing the config.action_controller.session.secret setting on an app (as part of preparation to full deployment. Am I right in assuming that changing the secret while testers have cookies set is the cause of this, and what other cause could there be (bot...
If there is a cookie set for a subdomain, metric.foo.com, is there a way for me to delete the metric.foo.com cookie on a request to www.foo.com? The browser (at least Firefox) seems to ignore a Set-Cookie with a domain of metric.foo.com. ...
Hi, I am currently working on the authentication of an AJAX based site, and was wondering if anybody had any reccomendations on best practices for this sort of thing. My original approach was a cookie based system. Essentially I set a cookie with an auth code, and every data access changed the cookie. As well, whenever there was a fai...
I'm trying to store an xml serialized object in a cookie, but i get an error like this: A potentially dangerous Request.Cookies value was detected from the client (KundeContextCookie="<?xml version="1.0" ...") I know the problem from similiar cases when you try to store something that looks like javascript code in a form input field. ...
I'm the only developer supporting a website that's a mix of classic asp and .NET. I had to add some .net pages to a classic asp application. This application requires users to login. The login page, written in classic asp, creates a cookie that .net pages use to identify the logged in user and stores information in session vars for the o...
im using the following code for setting/getting deleting cookies: function get_cookie(cookie_name) { var results = document.cookie.match('(^|;) ?' + cookie_name + '=([^;]*)(;|$)'); if (results) return ( decodeURI(results[2]) ); else return null; } function set_cookie(name, value, exp_y, exp_m, exp_d, path, domai...
I'd like to set a cookie via Django with that has several different values to it, similar to .NET's HttpCookie.Values property. Looking at the documentation, I can't tell if this is possible. It looks like it just takes a string, so is there another way? I've tried passing it an array ([10, 20, 30]) and dictionary ({'name': 'Scott', 'id...
Hey all, I am creating an HTTP handler that listens for calls to a specific file type, and handles it accordingly. My HTTP Handler listens for .bcn files, then writes a cookie to the user's computer and sends back an image... this will be used in advertising banners so that the user is tagged as seeing the banner, and we can then offer...
I am using prototype and I can't find any built in extensions to set or retrieve cookies. After googling for a little bit, I see a few different ways to go about it. I was wondering what you think is the best approach for getting a cookie in JavaScript? ...
I've added cookie support to SOAPpy by overriding HTTPTransport. I need functionality beyond that of SOAPpy, so I was planning on moving to ZSI, but I can't figure out how to put the Cookies on the ZSI posts made to the service. Without these cookies, the server will think it is an unauthorized request and it will fail. How can I add ...
My client wants me to enable a "Remember Me" checkbox when the user logs in. I am encrypting and storing both the username and password in a cookie. However, you cannot write to a textbox when it's in password mode. I've seen this done numerous times, so how are they doing it? thanks in advance! ...
I'm in the process of writing a basic cookie for an ecommerce site which is going to store the user's IP among other details. We'll then record the pages they view in the database and pull out a list of recently viewed pages. However i'm having an issue with the following code. dim caller caller = Response.Cookies("caller") if caller ...
I notice that Rails 2.2 (currently edge) supports setting HttpOnly on the session cookie. Is there a way of setting it on a Rails 2.1 application without moving to edge/2.2? ...
I am trying to to set up the login control to remember the login credentials of a user who has previously entered their user name and password successfully. I set the remember me property to true, but it doesnt seem to triger any events where I could read the cookie and auto login the user. Is there a straightforward mechanism to accom...
I have a internal website that users log into. This data is saved as a cookie. From there the users go on their merry way. Every so often the application(s) will query the authentication record to determine what permissions the user has. My question is this: Is it more efficent to just query the cookie for the user data when it is n...
How do you handle cookies and with webrequest/response as in a proxy? I'm not sure how to do this...or if i even can. C#.Net3.5 ...
From the Apple developer faq Safari ships with a conservative cookie policy which limits cookie writes to only the pages chosen ("navigated to") by the user. By default Safari only allows cookies from sites you navigate to directly. (i.e. if you click on links with the url of that domainname). This means that if you load a p...
I would like to save data in cookies (user name, email address, etc...) but I don't the user to easily read it or modify it. I need to be able able to read the data back. How can I do that with php 5.2+? It would be used for "welcome back bob" kind of feature. It is not a replacement for persistence or session storage. ...
I currently have a DetailsView in ASP.NET that gets data from the database based on an ID passed through a QueryString. What I've been trying to do now is to then use that same ID in a new cookie that is created when a user clicks either a ButtonField or a HyperLinkField. What I have in the .aspx is this: <asp:DetailsView ID="DetailsVi...