Determine if the Users Browser can Accept Cookies

Category:

ASP, HTML and XML

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Beginning

Author:

Intelligent Solutions Inc.

Version Compatibility: ASP

More information:

If your web page requires cookies or session variables to function properly, you might want to check if the user's browser is configured to accept cookies. This code shows you how and provides an example.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
' (None)

Code:

<%
'PUT THIS LINE IS AS FIRST LINE OF PAGE
Response.Buffer = True

Function Cookies_Enabled()
	   
 	   if Request.QueryString("Test") = "" then
          'try to write cookie
          Response.Cookies("Cookie_Test") = "Test"

'redirect user back to this page.  If cookies are 
             'enabled the value will not be blank.

Response.Redirect Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME") & "?Test=Yes"
	   End if
         Cookies_Enabled = Request.Cookies("Cookie_Test") <> ""

end function

'below is sample usage

<B>You cannot access this site because your browser's security settings do not permit you to
accept cookies.  Please select Tools | Internet Options from your browser's menu and change this setting</b>.
<%
else 
   if request.cookies("LastVisit") <> "" then
	response.write "<B>You last visited this page on "
	response.write request.cookies("LastVisit") & ". "
	response.write "Welcome back.</b><P>"
     End if	
	Response.Cookies("LastVisit") = Now
	response.write "<B>This is my web site. Isn't it nice</b>"
	
end if %>

</body></html>