To create cookies in ASP is so easy. After creating cookies, you will store it in client's visitors. While creating cookies, you must notice to modify the expire date of cookies. Because life length of a cookies is in your hands.
Dead or Alive!
It's not only a joke. When you create a cookies without modifying expire date, cookies can live until client's bworse closed.
For example:
<%
1. Response.Cookies("siteName")= "DevTutorials"
2. siteName = Response.Cookies("siteName")
3. response.write ("Site Name is :" & siteName & vbnewline)
%>
Now open your favorite browser (mine is Firefox :) ) and call cookie's page. Reload page after closing bworer but delete the (1) line. You will see that site name is displaying nothing. Because we did not modify expire date of cookie and we've lost it.
Let's add a expiration date to our code.
<%
0. Response.Cookies(("siteName").Expires= Now()+15
1. Response.Cookies("siteName")= "DevTutorials"
2. siteName = Response.Cookies("siteName")
3. response.write ("Site Name is :" & siteName & vbnewline)
%>
Reload page a few times after closing bworser. You will see that your cookies is alive.