On Tue, 28 May 2002 11:37:30 -0500, Drozd Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Greetings all, hi! >When a user dials into a remote computer using the **remote computers >desktop applications** (IE 5.0 specifically), and a servlet tries to >set/get a cookie, where does that cookie get saved/retrieved from. > >Is it saved on/retrieved from the users "local" computer hard disk? > yes. quoted from http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html: A server, when returning an HTTP object to a client, may also send a piece of state information which the client will store. Included in that state object is a description of the range of URLs for which that state is valid. Any future HTTP requests made by the client which fall in that range will include a transmittal of the current value of the state object from the client back to the server. The state object is called a cookie, for no compelling reason. BUT I'm not sure if this only applies to persistent cookies AND session cookies! AFAIK (and i hope somebody can confirm this), session cookies are saved on the server and the client only sends an (unique) ID that makes it possible for the server to map a client to saved data. -mw >or > >Is it saved/retrieved from the "remote" computers hard disk which is where >the browser is executed from? > >Thanks, > >Mark > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
