Re: Cookies - not the edible kind

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And a definition from Wikipedia:

*HTTP cookies*, sometimes known as *web cookies* or just *cookies*, are
parcels of text sent by a server <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server>to a
web <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web>
browser<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser>and then sent back
unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that
server. HTTP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol>cookies
are used for
authenticating <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentication>, tracking, and
maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences and
the contents of their electronic shopping
carts<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_shopping_cart>.



I like the "parcels of text" part of it, since that seems an easy concept
for a non-technical person to understand.

Your definition is good too, and much shorter.  :-)

PT
On 5/8/07, Chris Blanc <technical -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
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> On 5/8/07, Michelle Vina-Baltsas <Michelle_Vina-Baltsas -at- datascope -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > I'm writing a passage that relates to Windows cookies.  For those of you
> > who've had to document anything related to cookie(s), did you indicate
> the
> > term cookie? If not, what did you use instead?
>
> Here's a paraphrase of what I used:
>
> The first time you log in to the server, it will submit a digital
> token, or "cookie," to your browser which will be stored on your
> machine. Each time the server sees this cookie again, it will consider
> you to be logged in.
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