Well, this is what I witnessed. I'm using a windows
computer at home. It is configured to display hidden
files. I have a red hat linux server off who knows
where that hosts my site.
I set up a perl script to set and fetch cookies, and
it does so correctly on my computer. But, I went over
to a friend's windows computer, and when it tried to
bring up the site, the browser(IE) hung. Part of the
web site is a flash presentation with music, but the
flash was hanging as well, and there was no music.
So I start looking for the cookies on the local
machine. I couldn't find it, so did a search on the
entire machine. Still couldn't find it, which freaked
me out be because I knew it was there.
So, I went into the folder options or whatever it is
called and told the computer to display hidden files.
The moment I did that, the cookies appeared in windows
explorer in the cookies directory, and the music from
the flash presentation started playing.
So I concluded that if windows explorer couldn't see
the cookie, then IE couldn't either. I suppose I
could do a few more experiments, but it sure seems
like that cookie was hidden and couldn't be found.
Before I displayed the hidden files, there were
cookies in the cookies directory. So some cookies
aren't considered hidden files and others are. I'm
trying to figure out how to get my cookies to not be
hidden/system files so they appear.
Denzil
--- Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cookies are stored on the client side while they are
> generated and read from
> the server side. Whether or not the cookie is in a
> hidden file makes no
> difference as long as the browser knows where the
> cookie is, which it
> presumably does.
>
> Sean
>
>
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