Cookies

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Nov 19 14:30:44 EST 2001


"David A McInnis" <david at dataovation.com> wrote ...
> I want to read the values of a cookie that was placed on my computer by a
> web site.  I opened it up and it appears to be encoded.  Is there anyway
to
> decode the values?
>
A "good" cookie will simply be a random value used as a key to access
information stored on the server. There is no general scheme to find out
what information a cookie represents, though a poor use of cookies might
make information visible on the client side. Where are the cookies coming
from?

regards
 Steve
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