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Advantages of cookies

• A cookie is stored on the client computer.

• It can be ready by the server after a request for a page is posted.

• A cookie is a text-based data structure that contains key value pairs.

Therefore , it is easy to create and manipulate cookies.

• A cookies can either expire when the browser session ends or exists

indefinitely on the client computer, subject to the expiration rules on the

client.

Disadvantages of cookies

• Cookies are sent to the server with every HTTP request.

– Slow down web application

– Send data unencrypted over the Internet , except for SSL

• Cookies are limited to 4KB per domain.

• Cookies are tied to the browser session, not browser window/tab.