Retrieving Cookies
The world's simplest way to see what a cookie is the following:
document.write(document.cookie)
The document.cookie contains all of the cookies in the current domain and path. Let's take a closer look at this in Example 16-3.
Example 16-3. Retrieving cookies
<html>
<head>
<title>cookie see</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
document.cookie="user=Irving"
document.cookie="userID=21234"
document.write(document.cookie)
</script>
</body>
</html>
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♦ HOW THE CODE WORKS
As you can see, we're creating two cookies, and then we're writing the cookie object to the browser window. Figure 16-1 shows what this looks like.
Figure 16-1. Writing a cookie
As you can see, the following string was displayed:
user=Irving; ...
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