Question

How can I access a cookie in an MVC3 application?

It’s for a shopping cart, where users can add an item to their cart, meaning to their cookie.

On checkout I would read this cookie for a key value pair of ProductId and Quantity for the appropriate price fetching from the database and calculation.

Very simply, how do I check for cookie and read/write data to them from a Controller action method?

Answer 1

Read Cookie:

var cookie = Request.Cookies["key"];

Add Cookie:

Response.Cookies.Add(new System.Web.HttpCookie() { /* ... fill it up ... */ });

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