what is a cookie?

Answer 1

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1 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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2 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).

3 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. ...

4 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. ...

5 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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A little cookie history: The first cookies were created by accident. Cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. These little test cakes were called "koekje", meaning "little cake" in Dutch.


Originally called "little cakes," cookies are made with sweet dough or batter, baked in single-sized servings and eaten out-of-hand. Perfect for snacking or as dessert, cookies are consumed in 95.2 percent of U.S. households. Americans alone consume over 2 billion cookies a year, or 300 cookies for each person annually.

Cookies are most often classified by method of preparation - drop, molded, pressed, refrigerated, bar and rolled. Their dominant ingredient, such as nut cookies, fruit cookies or chocolate cookies, can also classify them. Whether gourmet, soft or bite-sized cookies, new categories are always cropping up as the American appetite for cookies continues to grow.

Answer 2

A cookie is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user's hard disk. Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user's machine and later retrieve it. The pieces of information are stored as name-value pairs.

For example, a Web site might generate a unique ID number for each visitor and store the ID number on each user's machine using a cookie file.

Answer 3

Cookies are small files downloaded to your computer when you browse a Web page. Cookies hold information that can be retrieved by other pages at the site. Cookies are generally programmed with an expiration date, when they will be automatically deleted.

Answer 4

They r absolutely the best ever. My favorite, and i'm sure many will agree, is chocolate chip cookies. mmmmm..
Ok.. this is the secret way:

INGREDIENTS:

* 1 cup butter flavored shortening
* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 3/4 cup brown sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 teaspoons Mexican vanilla extract
* 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2 cups milk chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter flavored shortening, brown sugar and white sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla .Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually stir into the creamed mixture. Finally, fold in the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until light brown. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.


G'luk.. lemme know how it turned out. Absolutely lovely.. Mmmmm..

Answer 5

File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to order online. Early browsers often enabled cookies to track which Web sites a user has visited and to retrieve data from other parts of the user's hard disk.

Answer 6

cookie [in computing]: computer file containing user information: on the Internet or in a computer network, a file containing information about a user that is sent to the central computer each time a request is made.

The most common usage is this:
When you log in to any website, you can choose "remember me", which means that you don't have to input log in information later when you visit the website. What happens is a "cookie" is stored on your computer containing information about you. When you visit the website later, the information is sent to the website and you're automatically logged in.

Answer 7

A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough
but i think da one ur looking for is A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site

Answer 8

A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site

Answer 9

Cookies are used by Web servers to differentiate users, get info about your computer and so on, every time you turn on your connection to internet some one is watching you.

Answer 10

It is something that is stored in your Internet explorer .It is used to save some information in order for quiker navigation.You can`t stay logged in you Yahoo! mail if you don`t have cookies enabled on your browser for instance.