How It Works
Your server sends some data to the visitor's browser in the form
of a cookie. The browser may accept the cookie. If it does, it
is stored as a plain text record on the visitor's hard drive.
Now, when the visitor arrives at another page on your site,
the cookie is available for retrieval. Once retrieved, your
server knows/remembers what was stored.
Cookies are a plain text data record of 5 variable-length fields:
• Expires: This showsthe date the cookie will expire. If this is
blank, the cookie will expire when the visitor quits the browser.
• Domain: This is the domain name of your site.
• Path: This is the path to the directory or web page that sets
the cookie. This may be blank if you want to retrieve the cookie
from any directory or page.
• Secure: If this field contains the word "secure" then the
cookie may only be retrieved with a secure server. If this
field is blank, no such restriction exists.
• Name=Value: Cookies are set and retrieved in the form of
key and value pairs.
