Active News 15 Seconds Weekly Newsletter • Complete Coverage • Site Updates • Upcoming Features More Free Newsletters Reference News Articles Code Samples Components Tools New Free Downloads Vendors FAQ Feedback Books Links DL Archives Community Messageboard List Servers Mailing List WebHosts Consultants Tech Jobs 15 Seconds Home Site Map Press Legal Privacy Policy internet.commerce internet.com IT Developer Internet News Small Business Personal Technology Search internet.com Advertise Corporate Info Newsletters Tech Jobs E-mail Offers Compare products, prices, and stores at Hardware Central!	When writing web pages, you sometimes want to guarantee that the browser and user that are viewing the page accepts the cookies that you send. Though you can determine, with the Browser object, which browsers accept cookies, some browsers allow the user to refuse cookies even though the browser itself is capable of handling the cookie. Here is some code that will assign a cookie and then check to make sure that it got assigned. Note that this page is called cookie.asp, changing the name will mean that you have to change the code where it references cookie.asp. Response.Expires=0 strCookie = Request.Cookies("COOKIE") strTry = Request.QueryString("Try") If IsNull(strCookie) OR ( Len(strCookie) = 0) Then ' Check to see if this is a redirect after the cookie ' has been set If IsNull(strTry) OR (Len(strTry) = 0) Then Response.Cookies("COOKIE") = "Set" ' Redirect to this page and try again. Response.Redirect("cookie.asp?Try=Yes") Else ' User/Browser didn't accept cookies ' Do something... Response.Redirect("bad.asp") End If End If email this code sample to a colleague Related Articles Jan 24, 1997 - Simple ASP Chat This 15 Seconds' issue contains source code and step by step instructions for creating a chat session using Active Server pages, HTML and a standard web browser. 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