Cookie

The Cookie module provides support for server-side management of HTTP cookies. Cookies are used to provide state management in CGI scripts that implement sessions, user logins, shopping carts, and related features. To drop a cookie on a user’s browser, an HTTP server typically adds an HTTP header similar to the following to an HTTP response (see the httplib module):

Set-Cookie: session=8273612; expires=Sun, 18-Feb-2001 15:00:00 GMT; \
            path=/; domain=foo.bar.com

Alternatively, a cookie can be set by embedding JavaScript in the <head> section of an HTML document:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
document.cookie = "session=8273612; expires=Sun, 18-Feb-2001 15:00:00 GMT; \
   Feb 17; Path=/; Domain=foo.bar.com;"
</SCRIPT>

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