Summary
In this hour, you learned all about how HTTP cookies can be used to store information on the browser for later use by another CGI program. Options for having cookies expire at a predetermined time, being active for only a particular Web server, or for particular directories were covered. Finally, you reviewed many reasons for not using cookies and some problems with using cookies.
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