I’m trying to write a cookie in ASP.NET under https, but I see a plain text cookie in the client machine. Shouldn’t the cookie be encrypted by default under an https connection?
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I’m trying to write a cookie in ASP.NET under https, but I see a plain text cookie in the client machine. Shouldn’t the cookie be encrypted by default under an https connection?
Short answer is no, cookies are not encrypted in ASP.NET under SSL. SSL is a transport-level protocol, encrypting only the communications between the client and server. Cookies and query-string values are NOT encrypted by SSL. Once the cookie is on the client machine, it is left in whatever format it left the server in.