Introducing the COOKIE Scope
Cookies aren’t something specific to ColdFusion. Any server-side scripting programming environment can set them, and they can even be set by client-side languages such as JavaScript. Depending on the language, the actual code necessary to set or retrieve a cookie varies a bit, of course. The best implementations keep coders from having to understand the details of the actual communication between the browser and server. It’s best if the coder can just concentrate on the task at hand.
In ColdFusion, the notion of cookies is exposed to you via the simple, elegant COOKIE scope. Similar to the APPLICATION scope you learned about in the previous chapter, the COOKIE scope is automatically maintained by ColdFusion. Setting ...
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