Forms Auth cookie question

[Chris Huddle]

This may be a dumb question, but does anyone know where the Forms
Authentication cookie is kept on an XP box? It definitely isn't kept with
all of the other cookies in "Documents and Settings/Username/Cookies". I
know Microsoft recommends setting the path as "/" in the Web.config, but
where is that pointing to? Also, shouldn't the cookie be named what you
have it set to in the "Authentication" section of Web.config ? Can anyone
clarify this for me? Thanks!

[mortb]

The cookie is definatley located in the Documents and
Settings/Username/Cookies folder
(except if your browser isn't IE then it is located somwhere else)
But cookies lead a strange life :)
If you delete a cookie while surfing it is still set -- you'll have to close
down your browser and delete it to be sure it isn't seet.
The cookie file is typically named <yourUserName>@<yourServer>[x] where the
name yourServer is dependent on which namne you used to access your server
(it may be localhost, it may be the IP number or it may be the computername)
and x if present is a number.
The name of the cookie is kept _within_ the file -- if your site sets
several cookies with different names they are all kept within the same file
as the file is one per visited server. If you open a file you'll be able to
see the cookie names.

Hope this helps

cheers,
mortb

"Chris Huddle" <chuddle@timeplus.com> wrote in message
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> This may be a dumb question, but does anyone know where the Forms
> Authentication cookie is kept on an XP box? It definitely isn't kept with
> all of the other cookies in "Documents and Settings/Username/Cookies". I
> know Microsoft recommends setting the path as "/" in the Web.config, but
> where is that pointing to? Also, shouldn't the cookie be named what you
> have it set to in the "Authentication" section of Web.config ? Can anyone
> clarify this for me? Thanks!
>