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WebDynamic™ Web Glossary

A mechanism for transmitting information containing the name of a server and data about a client between a Web server and a Web client or browser. The collection of cookies on a computer is kept in a file named cookies.txt. A Web server writes a cookie to your computer only if you access a Web page that commands it to do that. A Web server reads a cookie only if it wrote the cookie.

The purpose of the cookie is to provide a convenience feature to save users time. It does this by remembering specific information about selection criteria you have chosen or entered. Then when you revisit the same site the information previously entered can be easily retrieved.