Difference between Request.Cookies and Response.Cookies

Question

I use both of these many times in my code and don\'t really know what the difference is , if a cookie is set shouldn\'t it be exactly the same in request and response? and is re

Answer 1

The word Response is used in Asp.net to send data from the server to the client and the Request is used to get the data from the client ( in the form of cookies, query string ) etc. Example:

Response.Write("will write the content on the form which will return to the client");
// Response.Cookies will send the cookie to the client browser.
 Response.Cookies.Add(HttpCookie("MyCookie", "MyValue"))
//and Request.Cookies is used to get the cookie value which is already present in the clinet browswer   

and as you mentioned

string a = HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookie["a"].Value;
// I think this will check the cookie which is present in the client browser [ If client has sent the cookie to the server ]

string a = HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookie["a"].Value;
// and this will see the only Response object. If the cookie present in the response object then it will return you otherwise not.