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Article ID: 265372 - Last Review: December 3, 2007 - Revision: 4.2
Duplicate ASP Collection Key Name with Different Cases Across the Collections Not Advised
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The key names of the Active Server Pages (ASP) collections - ClientCertificate, Cookie, Form, and QueryString - are not case-sensitive. "MyVar" and "myvar" would reference the same collection.
You should avoid using the same name with different cases for different ASP collections. For example, don't use "MyVar" for a cookie name and "myvar" for a form name. Depending on the ASP page, the form name in this case might be misunderstood as the cookie name, and the cookie pair myvar=aValue (not MyVar=aValue as expected) may be returned to the browsers in such a situation.
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
Install the following three ASP pages on an Internet Information Server/Services server and browse to Page1.asp. Click
submit, and then click
Page3.asp. Although "cookie:SecondValue" should be returned, "cookie:firstValue" is returned instead.
Page1.asp
<%
Response.Cookies("CookieName") = "firstValue"
%>
<HTML>
<BODY>
<FORM action="page2.asp" method=POST>
<INPUT type=hidden name=someothername value=Hello>
<INPUT type=hidden name=cookiename value=Yes>
<INPUT type="submit" value="Submit">
</BODY>
</HTML>
<%
myvar = Request.Form("CookieName")
Response.Cookies("CookieName") = "Secondvalue"
%>
cookie:
<a href=page3.asp>page3.asp</a>
<%
Response.Write "cookie:" & Request.Cookies("CookieName") & "<P>"
Response.Write "HTTP_COOKIE: " & Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_COOKIE") & "<P>"
%>
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
- Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
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