A cookie is a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The massage is then sent back to the server each time the browse requests a page frome the server.
The main purpose of cookies to indentify user and possibly prepare customized Web page from them. When when you inter a Website using cookies, you may be fill out a from providing such information as your name and interests. This information is packadge into a cookie and send to your Web browser, which stores it for later user. The next time you go to the same site Web site, your browser send the cookie to the Web server. The server can use the information to persent you with custom Web pages. SO, for example, instead of seeing just a generic wellcome page you might see a wellcome page with your name on it.
The name cookie drivers from UNIXT objects called magic cookies. These are tokens that are attached to a user, a programe and depending on the areas entered by the user or programe.
Cookies do not act maliciously on computer systems. They are merely text filles that can be delected at any time - they are not plug ins nor are they programs. Cookies cannot be used to spread viruses and they cannot access your drive. This dose not mean that cookies are not relevant to a user's privacy and anonymity on the Internet. Cookies can not read your hard drive to find out information about you; however, any personal information that you give to a web site, including credit card information, will most likely be stored in a cookie unless you have turned off the cookie feature in your browser. In only this way are cookies a threat to privacy. the cookie will only contain information that yuou freely provide to a Web site.
cookies have six parameters that can be passed to them :
(1) Thed name of the cookie.
(2) The value of the cookie.
(3) The expiration date of the cookie - this determines how long the cookie will remain active in your browser.
(4) The path the cookie is valid for - this sets the URL path the cookie is valid in. Web
page outside of that path cannot use the cookie.
(5) The domain the cookie is valid for - this takes path parameter one step futher.
This cookie accissible to pages on any of the servers when a site uses multiple
servers in a domain.
(6) The need for a secure connection - this indicates that the cookie can only be used
under a secure server condition, such as a site using SSL.
Both Netscape and microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) can be set to reject cookies if the user prefers to use the Internet without enabling cookies to br stored. In Netscap, follow the Edit/Preferences/Advance menu and in IE, follow the Tools/Internet Option/Security menu to set cookie preferences.
The main purpose of cookies to indentify user and possibly prepare customized Web page from them. When when you inter a Website using cookies, you may be fill out a from providing such information as your name and interests. This information is packadge into a cookie and send to your Web browser, which stores it for later user. The next time you go to the same site Web site, your browser send the cookie to the Web server. The server can use the information to persent you with custom Web pages. SO, for example, instead of seeing just a generic wellcome page you might see a wellcome page with your name on it.
The name cookie drivers from UNIXT objects called magic cookies. These are tokens that are attached to a user, a programe and depending on the areas entered by the user or programe.
Cookies do not act maliciously on computer systems. They are merely text filles that can be delected at any time - they are not plug ins nor are they programs. Cookies cannot be used to spread viruses and they cannot access your drive. This dose not mean that cookies are not relevant to a user's privacy and anonymity on the Internet. Cookies can not read your hard drive to find out information about you; however, any personal information that you give to a web site, including credit card information, will most likely be stored in a cookie unless you have turned off the cookie feature in your browser. In only this way are cookies a threat to privacy. the cookie will only contain information that yuou freely provide to a Web site.
cookies have six parameters that can be passed to them :
(1) Thed name of the cookie.
(2) The value of the cookie.
(3) The expiration date of the cookie - this determines how long the cookie will remain active in your browser.
(4) The path the cookie is valid for - this sets the URL path the cookie is valid in. Web
page outside of that path cannot use the cookie.
(5) The domain the cookie is valid for - this takes path parameter one step futher.
This cookie accissible to pages on any of the servers when a site uses multiple
servers in a domain.
(6) The need for a secure connection - this indicates that the cookie can only be used
under a secure server condition, such as a site using SSL.
Both Netscape and microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) can be set to reject cookies if the user prefers to use the Internet without enabling cookies to br stored. In Netscap, follow the Edit/Preferences/Advance menu and in IE, follow the Tools/Internet Option/Security menu to set cookie preferences.
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