HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared 15 January 1997

Foil 70 Cookies -- Client Side Files

From JavaScript Tutorial for CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age 1997 Basic Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox * Important Information in IMAGE
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Cookies provide an alternative mechanism where information is saved in special file on client (called cookies or cookies.txt)
  • Note History Cache Bookmarks are also saved client side
Such files can preserve information in a more robust way than hidden alternative!
Cookies are supported by Microsoft and and Netscape and can be used (like forms) for pure client-side or client-server activities
Neither hidden or cookies are very secure
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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