Request for setting a cookie . . .

Richard L. McCulley wrote:

 > Many of the sites that I go to today are setting cookies (or so my
 > McAfee Security Center tells me). What is the purpose of them setting
 > cookies #1?

To store some site-specific information that persists across requests for
different pages.

 > And secondly, as a web site developer, how can I request to set cookies?

Usually with http headers. Most server side programming environments have
functions to handle them.

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"Notorious Sharif" <sharif.RemoveThis@nyc.rr.com> wrote
 > While shouting G-UNIT, Richard L. McCulley wrote this:
  > > Many of the sites that I go to today are setting cookies (or so my
  > > McAfee Security Center tells me). What is the purpose of them setting
  > > cookies #1?
  > >
  > > And secondly, as a web site developer, how can I request to set
  > > cookies?
  > >
  > > Richard
 >
 > Cookies mainly are used by websites to store data used throughout the site.
 > You want to set cookies? For what purpose? You can do it many ways: with
 > PHP - use the function setcookie().
 >

var Then=new Date()
Then.setTime(Then.getTime() + 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
document.cookie = "cookie1=This cookie is to ask 'Add To Favorites' only once!;expires=" +
Then.toGMTString()

javascript might be easier, you have to set a timeout for when they expire.
lots of sites using them, they often reaarange the entry screen depending if you've been there
before.

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