COOKIE
Small piece of information that a
Web server sends to your computer hard disk via your
browser . Cookies contain information such as
login or registration information,
online shopping cart information, user preferences, etc. This information can be retrieved by other
web pages on the
site , so that this site can be customized. For example, when you're shopping online, the cookie contains a list of all the items you have in your shopping cart. When it's time to pay, the server takes the cookie from your browser to see what you have bought and you'll get a nice bill...
A cookie is a short file put on your system by a web page which includes information about your usage and facilitates the current interaction.There are many uses for cookies they may be erased at the end of a session or retained until the next session,and they may be encrypted or in plain text.
Small bits of data that a Web page asks a browser to store on a user's computer, either in RAM or on the hard drive. Cookies have become a valuable way to keep track of a visitor's movements on your site, as well as a convenient method to customize content based on a visitor's past preferences. A Cookie, for instance, allows a Web site to "recognize" and "remember" individual visitors by storing files on their browsers with a record of the last visit. Cookies cannot be used to "see" any other data on the user's computer, nor can they determine the user's e-mail address or identity.
