Using Cookies for Saving Information
Cookies are pieces of information that user’s browser can hold and that can have a max size of 4 Kbytes. Each time the browser opens your web application, it recalls all cookies provided by the website. The following are examples of writing and reading cookies:
Notice that the Expires
property of type Date
is required to specify that the cookie information will no longer be valid after that date, whereas the Value
property is of type String
so that you can store information without conversions.
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