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Who can see the cookies?

 Only the server that put the cookie on your

hard drive.

 Larger sites can set a domain attribute for

other servers in the same sub domain.

What Do ‘Cookies Look Like’?

Name = value pairs

The path for which the cookie is valid

The domain for which the cookie is valid

Types of Cookies

1. Session Cookies: Stored in memory

One session means time between opening and

closing of your browser. As the browser store in

memory these cookies also stored in memory.

As the browser goes out of memory the cookies

also deleted.

2. Persistent Cookies: Stored in hard drive

They are stored for

more than one browser

session. Hence they are

stored in hard drive.

Persistent cookies stay

with your browser even

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