February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
426 pages
10h 25m
English
Cookies are divided into two main categories. Persistent cookies are stored on the client device's internal storage as text files. Since the cookie is stored on the hard drive, it would survive a browser crash or persist through various sessions. Different browsers will store persistent cookies differently. Internet Explorer, for example, saves cookies in text files inside the user's folder, AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookie, while Google Chrome uses a SQLite3 database also stored in the user's folder, AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\cookies. A cookie, as mentioned previously, can be used to pass sensitive information in the form of session ID, preferences, and shopping data among ...
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