Om Cookie

Cookies are messages that web servers pass to your web

browser when you visit Internet sites. Your browser stores

each message in a small file. When you request another page

from the server, your browser sends the cookie back to the

server. These files typically contain information about your

visit to the web page, as well as any information you've volunteered,

such as your name and interests. Cookies are most commonly used

to track web site activity. When you visit some sites, the server gives

you a cookie that acts as your identification card. Upon each return

visit to that site, your browser passes that cookie back to the server.

In this way, a web server can gather information about which web

pages are used the most, and which pages are gathering the most

repeat hits. Only the web site that creates the cookie can read it.

Additionally, web servers can only use information that you provide

or choices that you make while visiting the web site as content in

cookies. Accepting a cookie does not give a server access to your

computer or any of your personal information. Servers can only

read cookies that they have set, so other servers do not have

access to your information. Also, it is not possible to execute code

from a cookie, and not possible to use a cookie to deliver a virus.

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