| LC control no. | sh 98000685 |
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| LC classification | QA76.9.C72 |
| Topical heading | Cookies (Computer science) |
| Variant(s) | HTTP cookies (Computer science) Magic cookies (Computer science) Persistent cookies (Computer science) |
| See also | Data structures (Computer science) Web servers |
| Found in | Work cat.: 98-12763: St. Laurent, S. Cookies, 1998. OCLC. MicrocompAbs (web sites store small blocks of data called "cookies") www.Yahoo (Cookies are small data structures delivered by a Web site to a Web client) PC Webopaedia (cookie: a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. The name cookie derives from UNIX objects called magic cookies. Cookies are also sometimes called persistent cookies because they typically stay in the browser for long periods of time.) HTTP Cookie Info. website, Feb. 23, 1998 (http cookie. Netscape's client side state definition: Cookies are 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) |
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