check if browser's cookies are enabled

Hi Sam,

 

 

If you can figure out how you want to test whether clients support session and/or persistent cookies you could probably use an iRule which sends the HTML and parses the subsequent requests. Here are a few examples found searching for 'check browser cookies enabled':

 

 

http://techpatterns.com/downloads/javascript_check_cookies.php

 

 

http://www.html-kit.com/tools/cookietester/

 

 

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t73185-detect-if-cookies-are-enabled.html

 

 

The way this is done on Microsoft Office Online is that we have a page which

 

tries to set a session cookie and a permanent cookie; this page then

 

redirects to a page which tests for those cookies. If they're not both

 

present, that page then redirects to a "you need to enable cookies" error

 

page.

 

 

You can send the HTTP response using HTTP::respond and check for cookies in the request using HTTP::cookie exists.

 

 

Aaron