How are cookies saved on your computer

Why are cookies used in HTTP

Created: 2022-06-30
Tags: #permanent


Cookies are saved when you receive a set-cookie header from a web-server. From then on, any request sent to that web-server, you'll send the cookie data back to web-server.

Attaching session cookies means server knows who is sending what data
Server can then keep track of user's actions.

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