[thesite] high level cookie question..

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Tue Jun 5 16:28:22 CDT 2001


matt,

:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: From: Warden, Matt
:
: But, the good thing about session cookies
: is that they aren't (supposed to be) stored
: on the client computer.
:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

wanna guess again?  *grin*

you better take a closer look at the cookie prompts when you're surfing.  a
normal cookie has an expiration date and has this warning in the prompt:

  "To provide a more personalized browsing
   experience, will you allow this Web site
   to temporarily save a small file (call a
   cookie) on your computer?  The file can
   only be used by this Web site."

a session cookie has an expiration value of "End of Session" and has this
warning in the prompt:

  "To provide a more personalized browsing
   experience, will you allow this Web site
   to temporarily save a small file (call a
   cookie) on your computer?  When you exit
   the Web site, the file is removed."

they may look the same at a glance, but they're not.  while your browser
window is open they're treated exactly the same too -- they're stored as a
text file on your computer.  the difference is that one of them (the session
cookie) is deleted when you close the browser window and the other is not.

thanks,

.jeff

http://evolt.org/
jeff at members.evolt.org
http://members.evolt.org/jeff/






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