Introduction to Cookies
- Basic references
- Cookie Specifications www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
- The latest news on cookies: www.cookiecentral.com
- Free Cookie Management tools and a longer list of (free) Privacy tools
- Web bugs, a cookie security hole
- SuperCookies
- Common Uses
- Cookie Facts
- A cookie is a small text file stored by the browser on the machine
- Cookie files can contain a maximum of 300 cookies
- A cookie can contain at most 4 kilobytes of data (including both name and value)
- Browsers will store at most 20 cookies per server or domain
- How Cookies work
- Making Cookies
- Three basic JavaScript functions: getCookie, setCookie, and delCookie
The code and sample