Understanding cookies

One of the Stage Management techniques of dot net development is using data from cookies. Cookie is simply a text file which stores user and session related information.



Cookies can be stored or created at two places, namely local file system and the current browser.

Cookies created in file system are usually located in Temporary Internet Files directory which you can locate from your browser history settings.
The location of the cookie in the file system varies upon the browser and the operating system in use.
Browser reads these cookies if the cookies are not expired.
However old expired cookies are not deleted automatically by your browser.

Cookies created in browser are temporary cookies usually having very less amount of data, eg :- Current user details, previous page URL, temporary variables, etc.
These cookies will be flushed automatically by closing the browser.

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