cookies and vbscript

[thebloke]

Guys

I'm having trouble doing something as simple as setting and reading a cookie using vbscript.

The issue is this. I need to set a cookie which holds a database connection string depending on whether the code is running on a local server or my live webserver. I currently do this without cookies by simply setting the value of a variable using asp and servervariables("HTTP_POST") however I now need to do this in vbscript (for reasons to long winded to go into).

I have a link which calls a vbscript sub routine

<div id="QuoteButt"><a href="someurl" target="_blank" id="lnk" class="Link03">Click here</a></div>

This calls the sub

<script language="VBScript">
sub lnk_onclick()
set oConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
'now, here's the problem. I need to do something to determine what server I'm using. In asp I would do this:
if request.servervariables("HTTP_HOST") = "localhost" Then
strConnex = "Provider=sqloledb;SERVER=localserver,UID=myuid;PWD=mypwd;DATABASE=mydatabase"
else
strConnex = "Provider=sqloledb;SERVER=liveserver,UID=myuid;PWD=mypwd;DATABASE=mydatabase"
end if
'do some other stuff
end sub
</script>

Now, I can set this string in asp and store it in a variable however when I try to read it in vbscript, it's empty. I can store it in a cookie and I can read it by using

'asp

response.cookies("connex") = strConnex

'vbscript
alert document.cookie

But this gives me every cookie stored for the session, which isn't good (also, it's html encoded which doesn't help).

I just want to be able to read the connection string cookie using vbscript and use this to open my database conneciton! It aint rocket science. Is it?!

[thebloke]

Sorted this but I have another problem. I'm getting this error:

safety settings on this computer prohibit accessing a datasource on another domain.

I obviously can't just change the browser settings as this won't be any help to my users. Is there something I can do in IIS (v5)?