Cookies (VBScript vs. JavaScript)

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If I use VBScript to write a non-persistent cookie that contains 5 or 6 values,

How hard will it be to have Javascript read the data in the cookie for use on other pages?

Or am I just asking for more aggravation?

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That won’t be hard at all. You can use the following code to read a cookie (Name = Cookie Name):

function getCookie(Name) {
   var search = Name + "="
   if (document.cookie.length > 0) { //if there are any cookies
      offset = document.cookie.indexof(search)
      if (offset != -1) { //if cookie exists
         offset += search.length
         //set index of beginning of value
         end = document.cookie.indexof(";", offset)
         //set index of end of cookie value
         if (end == -1)
             end = document.cookie.length
         return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
      }
   }
}

I suggest you check out Netscape’s Client-Side JavaScript Guide (1.3) and Client-Side JavaScript Reference (1.3). You can also download these in PDF version at http://developer.netscape.com/tech/javascr…javascript.html%5B/url%5D

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