[thelist] Reading an ASP cookie on another application server

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

Hi Chris,

   What happens when you pull the cookies with javascript?

   Also, could you give us a sample of what the gibberish looks like?  Maybe it would spark some recognition with somebody.

Cheers,

Peter

Original Message:
>From: "Chris Hayes" <chris at londonweb.net>
>
>Hi
>
>Can somebody point me right here?
>
>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
>
>Some playing about with pagenecoding certainly changes the gibberish I'm
>seeing, but it's still gibberish.
><cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="iso-8859-1"> or UTF-8. whatever
>
>ASP (not .NET) apparently URL encodes it's cookies.  No problem, I URLDecode
>them,  it's still gibberish.
>
>This is all part of a seemless login process, which will work fine if I'm
>using ASP.
>
>It seems from my Google research that few people have encountered problems,
>maybe nobody else is doing this stuff?!?
>
>Any ideas?
>