Kbase 16077: What is a cookie?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/05/1998 |
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What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small nugget of information that is sent to the browser
from a World Wide Web server. This block of data can be anything,
a unique user ID generated by the server, the current data and time,
the ip address of where the browser is logged onto the net or any
other chunk of data that you want.
After a browser receives a cookie it will then send that cookie to the
server that set it whenever it requests an html page. The browser will
only send the cookie to the server that originally set it.
Netscape, Mosaic and Microsoft all support HTTP cookies and
have been for awhile.
There is much useful information on the Internet regarding the use
and specification for cookies. Try HotWired's webmonkey archive for
useful articles as a starting point:
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/geektalk/archive/index.html
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 16077