[thelist] Reading an ASP cookie on another application server

Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com) peter at easylistbox.com
Tue Aug 17 12:47:00 CDT 2004


   I'm curious.

   Can you paste the output (including unprintable characters) into the form at 
http://aspalliance.com/peterbrunone/analyzethis/analyzethis.asp
and let us know what you get?  The characters you listed below all have values under 255...

Thanks,

Peter

Original Message:
>From: "Chris Hayes" <chris at lwcdial.net>

>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 ----- 
>From: <chris at martiantechnologies.com>
>
>> 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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