On 20 Aug 2000, 17:42, John P. Penasack wrote:
> So I re-established my links to the Web Sites I remembered had ID's and
> passwords. The first was the NY Times. After "reading the paper", I
> went to Options to see how many cookies would be there from the NY
> Times. Summary: 7 HTML files - 123KB 70 GIF files - 179 KB 6 JPEG files
> - 110KB
>
> Amazing because I never realized the number of unique cookies one Web
> Site installs.
Well, John, those files are not cookie files, but rather files in your
cache, which is a collection of parts of the web sites you visit.
A cookie is 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.
Note the files you list are html, gif, jpg files and more. Those are
not text files, therefore they cannot be considered cookies.
John to understand web browser caching better, read this tutorial:
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
http://www.wdvl.com/Internet/Cache/index.html
The IE browser stores your cookies in the Cookies directory:
c:\windows\cookies
Alan
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