# How to read cookie directly?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-read-cookie-directly/315562>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 29, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-read-cookie-directly/315562 "2010-10-29T03:30:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-read-cookie-directly/315562/1 "2010-10-29T03:30:10Z")

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I need to read the contents from the browser’s cookie.  
I tried to use FlashVars to pass the contents from html to flash.  
However, the contents of the cookie may change after the swf is loaded.  
So I need to setup a listener to read the cookie directly.  
Any idea? Thanks!