The Request.Browser.Cookies property (of type bool) attribute stores information whether client’s browser supports cookies and whether or not they are enabled.
How reliable is the property Request.Browser.Cookies? Is it guaranteed to be correct ? Or should I rather implement redirection technique suggested by Software Monkey in this question?
Please note: This in not a question “are cookies reliable” ? This is a question: “Is the information whether users browser accepts cookies reliable?”
With the revised question, a new answer:
The documentation property
HttpBrowserCapabilitiesBase.Cookiessays:It appears to be set based on detection of the user’s browser and the browser capability database on the server. So it will reliably tell you if the browser is capable of storing cookies if and only if:
Condition #1 would be broken if the user agent HTTP header was changed (eg. by developer tools or a proxy). Condition #2 would be broken if the browser is newer than the database, or there is a defect in the database.
tl;dr version: there is no guarantee, treat this information as “best effort”. And of course the user could have disabled cookies (eg. “in private” browsing mode).
Original answer to a different question:
If you want to rely on the cookies you send in a response always coming back exactly the same, then the answer is: usually, but don’t rely on this.
Possible reasons:
wget.exe) that doesn’t handle cookies for the user.