What is a Cookie?
May 25, 08 by the programmerA cookie is a text-only string that websites stores in your browser.
This information is used by the website that stored it for later reference.
For example if a web site wants to store a information for a user that browsing it from that computer it can store that information in a cookie, so the next time this user comes to the web site the website can access the cookie and read the information.
Example:
If a website wants to know how many times a user has visited it can store an information of the number of times the user has been on the site in a cookie and each time the user comes back it can increment the cookie value.
