Cookies provide an alternative mechanism to hidden files where information is saved in special file on client (called cookies or cookies.txt)
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Note History Cache Bookmarks are also saved client side
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Such files can preserve information in a more robust way than hidden alternative!
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Cookies are supported by Microsoft and and Netscape and can be used (like forms) for pure client-side or client-server activities
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Neither hidden or cookies are very secure
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Cookies have 5 attributes -- name, expires, domain, path and secure and are specified by a single line that must specify a value for name but where all other attributes are optional.
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