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A small text file of information that certain Web sites attach to a user's hard drive while the user is browsing the Web site. A Cookie can contain information such as user ID, user preferences, archive shopping cart information, etc. Cookies can contain Personally Identifiable Information (as defined below).
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Small data files written to a user's hard drive by a web server. These files contain specific information that identifies users (eg, passwords and lists of pages visited).
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A cookie is a small piece of data which is sent from a web server to a web browser and stored locally on the user's machine. The cookie is stored on the user's machine but is not an executable program and cannot do anything to the machine. Whenever a web browser requests a file from the same web server that sent the cookie, the browser sends a copy of that cookie back to the server. ...
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A unique string of letters and numbers that the web server stores in a file on your hard drive. This method is used by web designers to track visitors to a website so the visitors do not have to enter the same information every time they go to a new page or revisit a site. For example, web designers use cookies to keep track of purchases a visitor wants to make while shopping through a web catalog. ...
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A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file called cookie.txt. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
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Information that a Web server stores on a user's computer when the user browses a particular Web site. This information helps the Web server track such things as user preferences and data that the user may submit while browsing the site. For example, a cookie may include information about the purchases that the user makes (if the Web site is a shopping site). The use of cookies enables a Web site to become more interactive with its users, especially on future visits.
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A piece of information sent to a browser by a Web Server, the browser then returns that information to the Web server. This is how some Web pages "remember" your previous visits
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A file on a computer that records user information. Some web sites use cookies to identify visitors to that site, enabling more personalized information to be served upon return to the site. Users can prevent web sites from assigning cookies by adjusting options with the client's browser.
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A web server can send "cookie" information down to a web browser, which will then supply that information back to the server along with each subsequent request. Some end users disable this feature of their web browsers. WebSTAR logs cookie information when the "CS(COOKIE)" token is included.
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information stored on a user's computer by a Web site so preferences are remembered on future requests.
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A small file on your computer in which a web site may write data. The data may be used by that web site only, to track your choices and custom tailor its responses. Go to top of page
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A Cookie is a piece of software which records information about you. It holds this information until such time that the server requests it. For example, if you are browsing around a virtual shop, each time you place an item in your basket the information is stored by the cookie until you decide to buy and the server requests the purchase information.
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The most common meaning of "Cookie" on the Internet refers to a piece of information sent by a Web Server to a Web Browser that the Browser software is expected to save and to send back to the Server whenever the browser makes additional requests from the Server.
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A small text file placed on your hard drive by a web site to record information about you. When you return, your computer serves up the "cookie" to the web site and previously recorded information such as your name, site login password, preferences, shopping cart info, and more are passed along to the site. The web page is then customized based on that data.
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A small piece of information a web site leaves on a visitor's computer when the visitor visits a site. Cookies are used to remember information about a visitor to be used at a later time.
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A file on your computer that records information such as where you have been on the World Wide Web. The browser stores this information which allows a site to remember the browser in future transactions or requests. Since the Web's protocol has no way to remember requests, cookies read and record a userÕs browser type and IP address, and store this information on the userÕs own computer. The cookie can be read only by a server in the domain that stored it. ...
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Where a Web server stores a small piece of information with a browser that uniquely identifies that browser. While cookies only identify unique computers - as opposed to individuals - the inactivity constrain on the calculation of visits, ie 30 minutes, should make it relatively safe to use cookies to determine the page requests associated with one. One caveat is caching: reportedly, some online services are caching the cookies, thus requesting pages for multiple visitors. ...
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Small bits of data that a Web page asks a browser to store on a user’s computer, either in RAM or on the hard drive.
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the most common meaning of “Cookie” on the Internet refers to a piece of information sent by a Web Server to a Web Browser that the Browser software is expected to save and to send back to the Server whenever the browser makes additional requests from the Server. Cookies might contain information such as login or registration information, online “shopping cart” information, user preferences, etc. ...
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A "cookie" is a temporary Security ID number assigned by the firm to the browser each time you login (like a visitor's ID badge) that let's the customer move from page to page within password protected areas of the site. This customer identifier is saved on their hard drive.
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Information (in this case URLs, Web addresses) created by a Web server and stored on a user's computer. This information lets Web sites the user visits to keep of a user's browsing pattterns and preferences. People can set up their browsers to accept or not accept cookies.
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In computer terminology a cookie is data sent to your computer by a web server that records your actions on a certain web site. It's a lot like a preference file for a typical computer program. When you visit the site after being sent the cookie the site will load certain pages according to the information stored in the cookie. For example, some sites can remember information like your user name and password, so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit the site. ...
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a string of text relating to your activity at a particular World Wide Web site that is downloaded to your hard disk and accessed by that site the next time you visit. Top of Page
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A small data file that some websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information, such as your user ID, that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. The next time you visit the website, the web program reads the cookie file to ascertain, for example, what parts of the website you are interested in. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. ...
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A small file stored by a web site on a users computer to track their usage of the web site and customize the site experience based on user tendencies. Cookies allow sites like Amazon to recommend new books by your favorite author.
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any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
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a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
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In the United States of America and Canada, a cookie (occasionally spelled "cooky") is a small, flat baked cake (British English biscuit). Its name comes from the Dutch word koekje which means "little cake". Cookies were first made from little pieces of cake batter that were cooked separately in order to test oven temperature. The ancestor of the cookie is said to have come from Persia according to many sources. (example) 2
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Cookie is a ZX Spectrum video game made by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. In the game Charlie the Chef has to bake a cake, but the ingredients (Mixed Peel, Chunky Chocolate, Crafty Cheese, Sneaky Sugar andColonel Custard.) are reluctant. The game was written by Chris Stamper and Tim Stamper.
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Cookie is Japanese Shojo Manga magazine published by Shueisha. The circulatin is about 200,000.
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