Session Cookies - Possible??

[VB-Mike]

Is it possible to create a session cookie. In other words, a cookie that is created, then destroyed when the session ends or the browser is closed? I tried to create a cookie with no expiration date, but that did not work.

Probably a dumb question, but....

Thanks in advance...

[veryjonny]

Well, I guess to create a "session cookie" - you can set the expiry of teh cookie to NOW+ 20 (20 been the session timeout of your application)

But instead of that I would suggest you to use the session variables instead of "this" kind of a cookie.

[alex_read]

Take a look at the SessionState element in the web.config file. You can set the Timout property of this element, or terminate the session (using authentication etc.) to delete the cookie when it's no longer needed.

FROM MSDN:
You might also want to specify the cookie's expiration date and time. Cookies are normally written to the user's disk, where they could potentially hang around forever. You can therefore specify a date and time on which the cookie expires. When the user visits your site again, the browser first examines the collection of cookies for your site. If a cookie has expired, the browser does not send that particular cookie to the server with the page request; instead, the expired cookie is deleted. (Your site might have written multiple cookies to the user's computer; each cookie can have a separate expiration date and time.) Notice that the browser is responsible for managing cookies on the hard disk, a fact that affects what you can do with cookies in your application, as I will explain shortly.