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Introduction to Cookies |
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- Supported by Netscape 2.0+ and IE.
- Allow client specific data to be stored on the user's machine,
and sent back to the server.
- Used to persist user information
Caveats
- Only supported on Netscape and Microsoft
- Not supported by all servers
- Only strings can be persisted
- Amount of data to be persisted is limited
- Some users specifically turn OFF cookie support