The term “Cookie” in the context of the internet is defined by Netscape as: “A general mechanism which server side connections (such as CGI scripts) can use to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. The addition of a simple, persistent, client-side state significantly extends the capabilities of Web-based client/server applications. ... The name cookie derives from UNIX objects called “magic cookies”. ... txt) with valued-pairs of a specific syntax stored on the client. The syntax is set in an HTTP header with user defined parameters that can are retrieved and created by the web server usually through a CGI (common gateway interface) script. ... All this information is stored on the client’s computer where it can be retrieved the next time the user visits the site.
For something so inconspicuous, the HTTP cookie has gotten more than its share of attention from the technology world as well as the social world. ...
Cookies were created to do one thing, which was to solve the problem of storing “state information” on a web site visitor’s computer. State information is information about a browser the last time the user visited the web site. ... While the creation of the cookie solved an enormous web developer’s problem of knowing the client’s browser state, it wasn’t without problems of its own.
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