Posted by Geoff Berrow on 11/07/05 09:49

Message-ID: <436eff87$0$84013$edfadb0f@dtext01.news.tele.dk> from myname
contained the following:

>> the nature of sesion mechanism is more complex than just cookie. You
>> can set cookie at any place of script - you just make easy operation -
>> write the information to broweser's cookie.
>
>Actually, a cookie is part of the header. So cookies must be sent before
>content

Cookies are sent by the client to the server as long as they have
previously been set by the server . A cookie cannot be set and sent
simultaneously. I find this confuses the hell out of my students...

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