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How can I set a cookie so that it never expires?

Jul 6th, 2004 03:56
Deepak Bansal, Rachit Bagda, unknown unknown, http://www.rachit.com http://www.rtnaustralia.com http://www.rtnasia.com

There's no way you can set a cookie to NEVER expire - but what you can 
do is to set the expiry date to several years ahead like "July 4, 
2010" 
:
   Response.Cookies("cookiename").Expires = "July 4, 2010"
If you're thinking "Hey, what if today's date IS July 3, 2021 - my 
cookie would expire tomorrow !!!". For this case, you can also use 
relative expiration dates by using the syntax Date + n where n is the 
number of days before expiring :
  Response.Cookies("cookiename").Expires = Date + 300
This will in effect extend the expiry date of the cookie to an 
additional 200 days from the time it was accessed.