# How do you get a cookie in a radiant extension

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**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [August 2, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-get-a-cookie-in-a-radiant-extension/144798 "2008-08-02T05:46:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-get-a-cookie-in-a-radiant-extension/144798/1 "2008-08-02T05:46:23Z")

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I have written an extension that gives me a few customer tags for  
generating download links.

In my layout I use javascript to set a cookie according to what page  
referred the user to my site.

If that user later clicks over to the download page I want to customize  
the download link according to how (and if) the cookie is set.

Does anybody know how to retrieve a cookie from within a tag definition  
block?