Cookies
The QueryString and Form collections are available for each browser request, and result from parameters and/or submitted forms from the previous page. Each time the user requests any file from the server, the Request object’s collections are updated with the information from the request. Occasionally you may find a need for more persistent data storage. To achieve this, the concept of cookies was introduced into the HTTP protocol specification, and quickly adopted by the browsers.
A cookie is a packet of information that is sent by the browser to the server with each request. Data items within each cookie are available in the Cookies collection, and it is accessed in a similar manner to the QueryString and Form collections. The cookie ...
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