HttpListenerResponse.Cookies Property

Definition

Gets or sets the collection of cookies returned with the response.

C#
public System.Net.CookieCollection Cookies { get; set; }

Property Value

A CookieCollection that contains cookies to accompany the response. The collection is empty if no cookies have been added to the response.

Examples

The following code example checks a request for a cookie, and returns a new cookie with the response if the request did not have one.

C#
// This example requires the System and System.Net namespaces.

public static string NextCustomerID()
{
    // A real-world application would do something more robust
    // to ensure uniqueness.
    return DateTime.Now.ToString();
}
public static void SimpleListenerCookieExample(string[] prefixes)
{
    // Create a listener.
    HttpListener listener = new HttpListener();
    // Add the prefixes.
    foreach (string s in prefixes)
    {
        listener.Prefixes.Add(s);
    }
    listener.IgnoreWriteExceptions = true;
    listener.Start();
    Console.WriteLine("Listening...");
    // Note: The GetContext method blocks while waiting for a request.
    HttpListenerContext context = listener.GetContext();
    HttpListenerRequest request = context.Request;
    string customerID = null;

    // Did the request come with a cookie?
    Cookie cookie = request.Cookies["ID"];
    if (cookie != null)
    {
         customerID=cookie.Value;
    }
    if (customerID !=null)
    {
          Console.WriteLine("Found the cookie!");
    }
    // Get the response object.
    HttpListenerResponse response = context.Response;
    // If they didn't provide a cookie containing their ID, give them one.
    if (customerID == null)
    {
        customerID = NextCustomerID();
        Cookie cook = new Cookie("ID", customerID );
        response.AppendCookie (cook);
    }
    // Construct a response.
    string responseString = "<HTML><BODY> Hello " + customerID + "!</BODY></HTML>";
    byte[] buffer = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(responseString);
    // Get the response stream and write the response to it.
    response.ContentLength64 = buffer.Length;
    System.IO.Stream output = response.OutputStream;
    output.Write(buffer,0,buffer.Length);
    // You must close the output stream.
    output.Close();
    // Closing the response sends the response to the client.
    response.Close();
    listener.Stop();
}

Remarks

A cookie is name/value text data from a Web server that is stored on the local (client) computer. The following cookie formats are supported: Netscape, RFC 2109, and RFC 2965.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 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 2.0, 2.1

See also