FormsAuthenticationConfiguration.Cookieless Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web.Configuration

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets or sets a value indicating whether forms-based authentication should use cookies.

public:
 property System::Web::HttpCookieMode Cookieless { System::Web::HttpCookieMode get(); void set(System::Web::HttpCookieMode value); };

[System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("cookieless", DefaultValue=System.Web.HttpCookieMode.UseDeviceProfile)]
public System.Web.HttpCookieMode Cookieless { get; set; }

[<System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("cookieless", DefaultValue=System.Web.HttpCookieMode.UseDeviceProfile)>]
member this.Cookieless : System.Web.HttpCookieMode with get, set

Public Property Cookieless As HttpCookieMode

Property Value

HttpCookieMode

One of the HttpCookieMode values. The default value is UseDeviceProfile.

Attributes

ConfigurationPropertyAttribute

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to access the Cookieless property. Refer to the code example in the FormsAuthenticationConfiguration class topic to learn how to get the section.

// Get current Cookieless.
System.Web.HttpCookieMode currentCookieless =
    formsAuthentication.Cookieless;

// Set current Cookieless.
formsAuthentication.Cookieless =
    HttpCookieMode.AutoDetect;

' Get current Cookieless.
Dim currentCookieless _
As System.Web.HttpCookieMode =
formsAuthentication.Cookieless

' Set current Cookieless.
formsAuthentication.Cookieless = HttpCookieMode.AutoDetect

Remarks

The Cookieless property defines whether forms-based authentication should use a cookie to exchange user information.

See also

• Protection
• ASP.NET Authentication
• Forms Authentication Provider