e-commerce: What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file or token which is stored on the hard drive of a computer that is visiting a website. The purpose of a cookie is to allow an application on a website to recall information about a visitor and about the visitor's current session. A website has no way of recalling the identity of a visitor when moving from page to page, so using a cookie saves having to re-enter information on every page.
A cookie cannot store any more information about you than what your computer provides. Names and addresses are not automatically recorded - this information has to be specifically requested using a form. A good example of the usefulness of cookies is the use of password sensitive pages. These pages require re-authentication when moving from page to page, so a cookie is used to store and re-submit the customer's password. Some cookies are used as convenient bookmarks, remembering the page a customer exits from, and automatically landing on that page at the next visit. Cookies also facilitate e-commerce by assigning and storing a customer's unique reference number for use with a shopping cart. This allows the visited site to immediately see the status of orders and deliveries, etc. Go to Choose an Effective Domain Name Go to Search Engine Web Crawlers Go to Verifying Reliability of Commercial Websites Go to Site Build It e-commerce package Go to Virtual Assistants
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