Posted by Arjen on 01/30/07 07:04

Colin McKinnon schreef:
> Arjen wrote:
>
>> Amar schreef:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> In my application, I have a page, which displays a number of
>>> rows, and each row having a check box . I can check more than one
>>> check box on this page and I have to store all these check box values
>>> on a single cookie . Like if I am storing some ids as the values for
>>> the check boxes ,then I have to put all thesee ids of the checkboxes
>>> into a single cookie , which are checked .
>>>
>>> Please help me.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> amar
>> Why cookies ? They are unreliable. Use sessions (or a database if you
>> need to store them for a longer time).
>>
>>
>
> Arjen: how do you think your server knows which session the request is
> associated with.

RTFM :-D
A visitor accessing your web site is assigned an unique id, the
so-called session id. This is either stored in a cookie on the user side
or is propagated in the URL.

Some of the cookies (atleas in older browsers) fail. Cookies are not
reliable.

--
Arjen
http://www.hondenpage.com - Mijn site over honden

[Back to original message]