Cookies are set in the headers of the page returned to the visiting
browser by the web server. Therefore, to set a cookie, you need the
authority to write the cgi which creates the cookie header which becomes
part of the page header sent back to the browser. You send a cookie to
the browser by inserting a Set-Cookie: in the page headers.
For instance
print "Content-Type: text/html\n";
print "Set-Cookie: cookie_name = $value\n\n";
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
> I have a client who is preparing to launch a new software product for
> sending multimedia email (this post is _not_ about whether or not that is a
> good idea! :)
>
> They are considering having their web site homepage contain an animated
> demo of the product. That is, when you come to the site that is what you
> will see - the demo. You will have no choice but to see it.
>
> I have advised that this is not appropriate, even though the primary
> purpose of the site is to market the product. They asked if cookies could
> be used to determine if a site visitor was a first time visitor or if they
> had been to the site before. I know this is possible (right?) assuming that
> the site visitor has a relatively recent version of Netscape or MSIE, _and_
> that they do not have cookies turned off in the browser.
>
> However, I also believe that one must have a high level of access to the
> web server to set this up. That is, the 'typical' web hosting account will
> not allow you access to the server to set up this cookie implementation. Is
> that correct? Apologies for my lack of knowledge about server access. It's
> just that on the web hosts I've used, I've never noticed any services
> offered that might allow me to do more than the usual FTP up files, view
> some site stats, maybe create password protected directories, that level of
> access. I thought that to do anything with cookies one needed to really get
> into the inner workings of the server.
>
> Thanks for any comments on this subject.
>
> Barry
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