How to create and retrieve cookies using ASP
They can be used to remember things about a user when they come back to your site. Cookies expire after a certain amount of time which you can set. Also, the clients browser must have cookies enabled for them to work.

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Cookies with ASP
Cookies can be a good method for passing data between pages and especially for retaining data between sessions. Today, it's pretty safe to assume that anyone who is using your site can use cookies, since nearly every site that is non-static makes use of them(including all ASP sites that use sessions). It is also possible to set and read cookies using client-side code, but it is a bit more difficult. Reading and writing cookies using Active Server Pages' built in Request and Response objects is incredibly easy.

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Cookies Across Domains
Cookies are very useful for developers - keeping track of users, performing many functions cheaper than more expensive databases, personalization and customization, etc. Cookies are not transferrable across domains; the only domain that can access the cookie is the domain that created it. This article takes a look at how to bypass this limitation using Active Server Pages.

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Managing Session with and without Cookies
In this chapter, I will show you why, and provide you suggestions on how to manage your own sessions without cookies.

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Cookies
A cookie is a small file that the server stores on the user's computer. Cookies are very useful and you can use them to store password, user last visit, etc.

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Let's bake some cookies!
Learn how to use cookies in your ASP pages.

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Cookies 101
Cookies are a very useful; they can store usernames/password, preferences, last visits, etc. I will focus on storing information a user may type in at a typical website

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Using Cookies
This chapter discusses: * What is a cookie? * Sending and receiving cookies. * Cookie properties and itemized values. * Some other cookie definitions.

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Active Server Pages: Cookies
Cookies method is very similar to Session method: the basic difference is that with Cookies method the information is save in the clients computer and not in the server, so it is more suitable for sites with a lot of visitors. This method implies sending information to the client and requesting it whenever the information is needed. Additionally, we will learn how to delete the information save in the clients computer when it is not necessary anymore.

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Maintaining Session State With ASP
Sessions and cookies can be used to persist visitor information. In this article Himanshu shows us how to main session state with ASP using a combination of cookies, sessions and the global.asa file.Session and application variables are an important part of ASP programming.

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Cookies in ASP
Learn what are and how to use cookies in ASP.

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Write and Read A Cookie
Cookies enable you to write text directly to a users computer. This can be used to easily recognize if a user has been to your site before or used to prevent multiple entries in to forms.

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Some Nifty Functions for Passing Variables Around
Here are a set of very useful functions that allows you to pass variables around via forms, querystrings, and/or cookies.

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Validate logins with ASP, MS Access and Cookies
Having a user login on your page is arguably the best and easiest way for validation purposes leading into "members-only" or administration pages. This script will validate form input against field in a database.

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Herong's Tutorial Notes on ASP
This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning ASP himself. Topics include ActiveX, ASP, attachment, binary file, collection, cookies, HTTP response header, IIS, Perl, redirect, scripting, script debugger, script runtime DLL, session, VBScript.

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Sessions
This chapter describes: * How ASP server uses cookies to pass an ID with the browser to link multiple HTTP requests together. * How ASP server offers the session object to ASP pages to share information between multiple requests or pages. * Different ways to pass information between requests or pages. * How Perl tools can be used to help debug ASP applications at the HTTP communication level.

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