Cookie.Name Property

Definition

Gets or sets the name for the Cookie.

C#
public string Name { get; set; }

Property Value

The name for the Cookie.

Exceptions

The value specified for a set operation is null or the empty string

-or-

The value specified for a set operation contained an illegal character. The following characters must not be used inside the Name property: equal sign, semicolon, comma, newline (\n), return (\r), tab (\t), and space character. The dollar sign character ("$") cannot be the first character.

Examples

The following example displays the properties of cookies returned in a response. For the complete example, see the Cookie class topic.

C#
var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(args[0]);
request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();

using (var response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse())
{
    // Print the properties of each cookie.
    foreach (Cookie cook in response.Cookies)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Cookie:");
        Console.WriteLine($"{cook.Name} = {cook.Value}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Domain: {cook.Domain}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Path: {cook.Path}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Port: {cook.Port}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Secure: {cook.Secure}");

        Console.WriteLine($"When issued: {cook.TimeStamp}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Expires: {cook.Expires} (expired? {cook.Expired})");
        Console.WriteLine($"Don't save: {cook.Discard}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Comment: {cook.Comment}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Uri for comments: {cook.CommentUri}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Version: RFC {(cook.Version == 1 ? 2109 : 2965)}");

        // Show the string representation of the cookie.
        Console.WriteLine($"String: {cook}");
    }
}

Remarks

The Name property must be initialized before using an instance of the Cookie class.

The following characters are reserved and cannot be used for this attribute value: equal sign, semicolon, comma, new line (\n), return (\r), tab (\t), and space character. The dollar sign ($) character cannot be the first character.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0

See also