17 Aug
2004
17 Aug
'04
2:55 a.m.
Actually, can you explain what advantage cookies
provide?
Is there something about cookies which they do which can't
be done without cookies?????????????
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
Cookies can be used to maintain information about a user one THEIR
computer. This way the user does not have to re-enter the same
information each time they visit a web site. For example, I use cookies
on some of my personal sites so that a user can tell me his/her name when
they first visit, then I drop a cookie on their system that contains their
name and they never have to enter it again. On subsequent visits I just
read for the cookie rather than asking them for their name again. I use
this to identify a particular user on some sites where I like to know who
visits, but where the site's not sensitive enough to implement a user id
and password login process. This works fine in a "non-public" computer
environment.
Ashley