Question

I set a cookie like this in one page:

Request.Cookies["lang"].Value = "en-US";
Request.Cookies["lang"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(50); 

On another page I try and read the cookie:

string lang = Server.HtmlEncode(Request.Cookies["lang"].Value);

The cookie is not null but the value is an empty string. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should be using Response.Cookies to set the cookie, and Request.Cookies to read any cookies sent back from the client.

The code in your question is setting the cookie in the Request object, not the Response.