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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/16/50 11:59
mosesdinakaran@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Ron
>
> Thanks for ur reply.. I have some more questions please....
>
> I tried with what u said but I could not find the cookie
> file I am sure that the session handler is set to handle cookies
> because I dont have any problem with accessing cookie variable and
> session variable every thing works fine But I am curious about seeing
> the cookie file what my program has created. Meanwhile if I open
> yahoo.com I could see the cookie file created by the yahoo.
>
> So I uploaded my test file to another server and checked and
> now I could see the cookie file.
>
> I have learned that by default cookies are not created its
> either created by javascript or server side scripting. In php,
> session_start() and setcookie() will create a cookie
>
> Now I removed these two function in my file and I had only html
> code But still cookies are created I am very much confused.....
>
> My Questions are.
>
> 1) when I run my script in server (A) cookie file is not created
> where as when I run the same script in server (B) cookie file is
> created why?????
>
If this is a PHP script, perhaps session.auto_start is set in the
php.ini file? Or maybe something else is setting the cookie automatically.
> 2) Does a html page creates a cookie.
>
No.
> 3) Can a value stored in a cookie be edited. (ie I am storing a
> variable called access level in the cookie based upon the access level
> i will give permission to the user, Since cookies are stored in the
> client machine can the user open the cookie file and edit the access
> level )
>
Yes, it's a file on the user's computer, after all. They may not get it
right - but it can be edited. Keep this information in the session, not
the cookie. Session files are kept on the server.
>
> regards
> moses
>
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