InternetGetCookie

[JTL]

to give you some backgrounmd, the problem im trying to solve is this:

the user fills out a series of forms on a web page. this information is
submitted and stored in a database on the web server. the user is then
prompted to download my VB6 program. i need to be able to map the user's
form information (from the web page), to their installation of the software.
i'm wondering if can set a cookie from the web page which contains some sort
of unique id. then possibly read that cookie from my program using the
InternetGetCookie (or similiar) function. in order for InternetGetCookie to
work properly, does the user have to be using Internet Explorer- what about
Firefox, etc.?

any help you can offer on the subject is much appreciated-

thanks!

JT

[Scherbina Vladimir]

Good idea, but ... Each browser stores it's cookies in own location. For
example, FireFox creates a folder in "Document and Settings" and stores
cookies in cookies.txt file. IE has a special folder "Cookies" that contains
set of txt files, each represents one cookie. There is no unique solution
for your problem. Keep in mind, that more then 85 % of users uses IE.
--
Vladimir, Windows SDK MVP

Post by JTL
the user fills out a series of forms on a web page. this information is
submitted and stored in a database on the web server. the user is then
prompted to download my VB6 program. i need to be able to map the user's
form information (from the web page), to their installation of the
software. i'm wondering if can set a cookie from the web page which
contains some sort of unique id. then possibly read that cookie from my
program using the InternetGetCookie (or similiar) function. in order for
InternetGetCookie to work properly, does the user have to be using
Internet Explorer- what about Firefox, etc.?
any help you can offer on the subject is much appreciated-
thanks!
JT