[thesite] high level cookie question..

Warden, Matt mwarden at odyssey-design.com
Tue Jun 5 16:42:22 CDT 2001


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> From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
> Subject: RE: [thesite] high level cookie question..
> 
...
>   "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.  

So, you have actually seen the text file of a session cookie stored
in your filesystem? I was under the impression it was stored in
memory.



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mattwarden
mattwarden.com

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