[thelist] Reading an ASP cookie on another application server

Chris Hayes chris at lwcdial.net
Tue Aug 17 11:53:43 CDT 2004


Hi Chris

I have to point out that my values are gibberish anyway because they are
encrypted in a way that uses extended characters.  If I set - retrieve
cookies which could be considered plain old 7 bit ASCII there's no problem,
it's just these extended character values.

So here's an example using some accented characters:

response.cookies("testASPset") = "bob - êëìí"

Asp returns
testASPset=     bob - êëìí

CF returns
testASPset=     bob - ???

(that's bob and three unprintable characters, but they could be anything)

So it's something to do with character encoding, which I am shamefully not
up to date with.





----- Original Message ----- 
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Subject: Re: [thelist] Reading an ASP cookie on another application server


> Chris
>
> > I'm trying to read some cookies set an an ASP (not .NET)  server on a CF
> > server on the same domain.  When I read the cookies in CF I'm getting
> > gibberish back.  The ASP is of course reading them back fine.  Naturally
I'm
> > suspecting character encoding
>
> What values do the cookies have on the client machine, and can you post
the gibberish that you're seeing?
>
> [..]
>
> Regards
>
> Chris Marsh
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