Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 20 April 98

Foil 93 Cookies

From Overview of Advanced JavaScript -- Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 98. by Tom Scavo,Geoffrey C. Fox
Authoring Guide, Netscape Cookies
A cookie is:
  • a named string stored by the browser
  • a property of the Document object
The cookie mechanism gives the browser a kind of memory, that is, a cookie "saves state"
Originally, only CGI scripts could read/write cookie strings, but with JavaScript, cookies are handled entirely on the client side

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