RW_GET_COOKIE

Purpose

Retrieves the value of a cookieClosed A cookie is a small amount of named data stored by the web browser and associated with a particular page or web site. Cookies serve to give the web browser a memory, so that it can recall user preferences or other state variables when the user leaves a page and subsequently returns, or can pass data between pages .

Syntax

RW_GET_COOKIE(Name, vValue)

Parameters

Name The name of the required cookie.

vValue A variable in which to return the value of the cookie. If the cookie does not exist, vValue is set to an empty string.

The value extracted from the cookie is decoded to convert each escape sequence in the form %xx, (where xx is two hexadecimal digits) to the single character represented by the hexadecimal digits in the Latin-1 encoding. This encoding is fully compatible with the JavaScriptClosed A programming language supported by most web browsers. Client-side JavaScript allows executable content to be included with web pages.  escape() method.