AuthManager.GetUserIDFromCookie
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Use this method to retrieve a user ID stored in a cookie.
Definition
Function GetUserIDFromCookie(cookieData As String) As String
Parameters
cookieData
[in] A String that contains the cookie.
Return Values
If this method completes successfully, it returns a String that contains the user ID.
Error Values
This method sets the Number property of the global Err object to S_OK (&H00000000) to indicate success and to either standard or custom COM error values to indicate failure. For more information about standard COM errors, see Standard COM Errors.
The following table shows the custom COM error that this method can return.
| Constant | Value | Description |
| MSG_UPM_AUTH_SITE_NEEDED_ERROR | &HC1004C10 | The Initialize method must be called with the installed site name before calling this method. |
Additional information may be available using the global Err object. In particular, the Description property may contain a text description of the error.
Remarks
The cookie data is always URL decoded.
Commerce Server 2000 Analysis applications use this method to extract user IDs from cookies found in Internet Information Services (IIS) logs.
For more information about memory ownership issues related to COM property and method parameters, see Managing COM Parameter Memory.