Deleting Cookies?

Scruff

I'm working on an web asp application that uses a cookie to store some info about a user when they have logged in to the asp application. (Not invasive, just stuff they'll need to actually use the application)
Creating the cookie on login is fine but i can't seemd to remove or delete the cookie at all once they go to log out.

I'm mainly using VBscript for the asp pages.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kali

cookies are always a bit of a pain, but depending on how you initialised it, it should just be a case of setting the expiry date to some date in the past.

if you want an exact answer post up your code where you create the cookie.

eating

http://javascript.about.com/cs/cookies/

well worth a read chum

Pablo

Originally posted by eating
http://javascript.about.com/cs/cookies/

well worth a read chum

good tutorial there mate

The Corinthian

Use the Session object - the lifespan of the cookie becomes immaterial then as once you abandon the session, the ID in the cookie will become invalid.

DJB

A view ways to do this...

Set the cookie first with code like this:

response.cookies("security")("username") = Request.Form("username")
response.cookies("security")("password") = Request.Form("password")

When you want to delete the cookie you can use code like this:

response.cookies("security")("username") = ""
response.cookies("security")("password") = ""

This will leave the cookie on the users machine but delete the contents of the cookie. Modify the above to suit your needs.

Regards,

Dave