CFCOOKIE & Not CF Servers

[jmcg]

I have a page on a CF server that has set a cookie called Display.
Is it possible for this cookie to be viewed by a page that is not on a CF server.

IE what is the code for retrieving a CFCOOKIE in normal HTML/Javascript.

 

[GunJack]

Cookies are only sent to servers that created them so other servers will not see them. There is an exception to this. If several servers are load balancing a site, cookies created on one can be seen by the other servers because they are all in theory the same site.

If you're coding in CF, I would use CF's cookie handling features as they do a lot of the decoding work for you that you would have to do manually in Javascript. Just use <cfset x = cookie.var1> to get a cookie called &quot;var1&quot;. In javascript, cookies are accessed by the document.cookie object and I believe it returns one long string containing all cookies and values which you have to split up and parse out yourself.

Hope this helps,
GJ

 

[jmcg]

GJ
Thanks for the pointer.
As I was not too interested in the content of the cookie only that it existed you tip led me to :

function CheckCookie() {
	var allcookies = document.cookie;

	var pos = allcookies.indexOf("COOKIE1=");
	if (pos !=-1) {
		(do my thing)
		}

That meant I could ignore the parse bit.
Thanks
jmcg