Cookies and Sessions ASP Tutorials

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

Cookies
A cookie is a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a small text file that the server embeds on the user's computer. Each time the same computer requests a page with a browser, the cookie is sent back to the server too.

Using Sessions in ASP
This tutorial will teach you how to use sessions in ASP.

Creating a Members Area in ASP
A frequent task for ASP developers is to create a members area style section of a website. This would normally involve registration, a login page, and then access to a section of the site that is only available to registered users. This tutorial will cover the steps needed to create all 3 sections.

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.

Adding Site Registration
This tutorial will explain how to adding site registration.

Building a Registration Database
In this part 3 of "Using ASP for Form Handling", you will be shows how to put the form data gathered into a database. Shows how to develop a working registration system, set up the database and make it accessible via the web.

Authentication Tutorial
This is a quick and easy guide to building an authentication system in ASP. First, it explains Authentication: What it is, how you work with it, and what options are currently available to you. Then, it explains each choice in more detail to help you decide which is the best way for you to authenticate your web users.

Simple ASP Authentication System
This article describes how you can secure ASP applications using simple, but quite effective authentication schemes. This article uses a very simple way to achieve this. Just follow the steps and you have a secure login system.

ASP Authentication Using IP Address
This article explains how to control application access by validating the user's login and password against a database. Once validated, the IP address of the machine they are using is checked at the top of every page. What a given user can or can't do (that is, the security levels) is now handled easily.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

ASP Session Transfer across domains
You may have come across a situation where you have two ASP websites, possibly on different servers, and you wish to pass a visitor from site 1 to site 2 whilst retaining all the session variables.XSess passes the entire session from one ASP webserver to another securely.

Sesion and Application
In this page we will learn how to keep information from the user in our server (Session method) and how to share information between users (Application method). This is only a basic tutorial for beginners, so only basic features will be described.

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.

An Overview of Cookie Detection in ASP
This article will explain the problems faced and address them one by one. This will result in a cookie detection script written in ASP that you can use on your own site.

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.