2006-08-31 02:28:57 · 10 answers · asked by charen marri 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
1. A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.
2. Slang. A person, usually of a specified kind: a lawyer who was a tough cookie.
3. Computer Science. 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.
2006-08-31 02:31:00 · answer #1 · answered by Christopher C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cookies are the reminders that sites you visit leave on your disk for their future use. If you bought from a store online they will leave a code in your cookie file. If you come back to the same site they will check that code and recognize you as a return customer. On the downside cookies are sometimes left there for advertisers to use to pest you with their products or to make your computer call back to them when you are again online.
Browsers give you the capability to delete cookies or to not accept them under certain conditions (OK to put cookie there but must delete in 24 hours etc). Check under PRIVACY in browser.
2006-08-31 02:40:34 · answer #2 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cookies are some simple text files that are stored in your computer. Any website that wants to use a cookie tells your web browser to create a cookie file on your disk. So the folder where cookies are saved depends on your web browser. There is no need to be worried about them. They mean no harm at all. They are not viruses or worms or ... they are just simple text files. If you use a professional web browser like opera, you could edit your cookies very easily yourself. And there is no need to worry that cookies take up space of your disk. Each cookie can be at most 4KB. And each web site can create 20 cookies at most. So what ever any web site can do, it will take up to 800 KB of your hard drive. It is nothing actually to be worried about. And so now we know what a cookie is. Now let me tell you what usage it has got. Cookies are necessary for websites to actually know who you are. I don't say that they will grab any information about you. When you sign in to a site (like Yahoo! Mail). You enter a use name and a password. Yahoo checks and sees that this user exists. Then Yahoo tells your browser to create a file and store a value in it. This value is your identification phrase. For example a string like this: “id = afgggklkslweii987lkjdlsldjfsa”. And your real name that was registered into yahoo when you wanted to create your account. For example for me it would be “name = Farzad”. Every time your web browser sends a request to a server, it checks to see if that server has a cookie or not. If so, the browser attaches that data in the cookie to the request. So when the browser wants to load your home page, it attaches the data “id = afgggklkslweii987lkjdlsldjfsa name = Farzad ” into the request. So when Yahoo server wants to send your browser the page that is used as your home page, it knows which user wants his home page. So the Yahoo server takes the “ id = afgggklkslweii987lkjdlsldjfsa “ phrase and collects the emails that the user “ id = afgggklkslweii987lkjdlsldjfsa “ has. And uses the phrase “ name = Farzad” in order to make the welcome message “welcome Farzad” at the top of the page. So, this means that cookies are used by websites in order to inform them, who is actually sending a request. By this way they would know what information they should send back to the user. If there was no cookie (or any other concepts like cookies that websites use to recognize users), you had to sign in for every page you would visited. That could be some real trouble!
2006-08-31 03:33:38 · answer #3 · answered by farzad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cookies are a very important method for maintaining an application's ability to work interactively with a user by remembering all data since the application started, and differentiating between users and their individual settings.
There are many reasons a given site would wish to use cookies. These range from the ability to personalize information (like on My Yahoo!), or to help with on-line sales/services (like on Amazon Books or eBay), or simply for the purposes of collecting demographic information (like DoubleClick). Cookies also provide programmers with a quick and convenient means of keeping site content fresh and relevant to the user's interests. The newest servers use cookies to help securely store any personal data that the user has shared with a site (to help with quick logins on your favorite sites, for example).
2006-08-31 02:32:33 · answer #4 · answered by sunshine25 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everytime you visit a web site you collect a cookie. It is like a little reward for visiting. But cookies clog up your system so you have to go through and delete them to keep your system running at a good pace.
2006-08-31 02:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by SunFun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In computer terms its a smalle text file websites put on your computer when you visit them. If you visit websites where you have a user name to log into, they will most likely use cookies. Or when you shop online, a lot of websites keep you shopping cart info in a "cookie on your computer".
2006-08-31 02:34:05 · answer #6 · answered by justhoughtidcheck 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cookies are tracking programs that various websites put on our computers while we are surfing the net. they're like viruses.
2006-08-31 02:32:22 · answer #7 · answered by time-OUT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read this
http://www.csub.edu/WebServices/Resources/wscookies.shtml#What_are_cookies
2006-08-31 02:32:09 · answer #8 · answered by little weed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are like biscuits ususally with chocolate chips
2006-08-31 02:30:49 · answer #9 · answered by boo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dunno theyre just little thingy that clog up ur comps memory...
2006-08-31 02:31:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋