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Article: Cookie crumbs.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- September 16, 2002
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Last week we started on a meal of cookies and, seeing as how they were so tasty and suitable for endless wordplay concerning food, we will carry on with wild abandon.
We looked at the format of a Web server header that wants to set a cookie on a client browser and got as far as the parameters of cookies and some of the appurtenances thereof.
Let's go further. . . . Once a cookie has been created, each time the browser makes a request for the cookie's domain and path, the browser will pass that cookie's data to the server automatically as part of the request header.
Note that the cookie is only handed to the server if the domain matches exactly ...