Cookies Flashcards
Cookies are…
Small pieces of data stored on the client-sdie to track and identify users.
HTTP is … Cookies are used to implement…
stateless
sessions that can track the currently authenticated user or store the contents of a shopping cart (or track users).
Cookies are not always tied to…
authentication. you’ve had the exp of filling a cart and only logging in right before you check out.
Like many things on the web, the original implementation of cookies was…
fast and loose. There are lots of things we know are broken but we can’t replace them without breaking the internet.
We live with bad choices made during the grunge era.
Things like the image tag and cookies were half baked by
Netscape.
Cookies are sent as a…
header
Cookies can be accessed from the…
DOM… sometimes lol
