ASP Cookies are used to store information specific to a visitor of your website. This cookie is stored to the user's computer for an extended amount of time. You can set cookie expiration date/time while creating a cookie.

Creating a cookie in ASP

"Response.Cookies" is used to create cookies. Here is the syntax and example.

<%
Response.Cookies("username")="Vinda"
%>

You can set a date when the cookie will expire:

<%
Response.Cookies("username")="Vinda"
Response.Cookies("username").Expires=#January 15,2011#
%>

Retrieving cookies in ASP

we can retrieve the value of the cookie by using Request.Cookies command.

<%
username=Request.Cookies("username")
response.write("username=" &username)
%>

ASP Cookie Arrays

Cookie arrays can contain a collection of multiple values. It is also known as Cookie with Keys.

<%
Response.Cookies("user")("name")="Vinda"
Response.Cookies("user")("level")="Editor"
Response.Cookies("user")("country")="India"
%>