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This article will examine how web site programmers can use cookies to store a user’s session state during and beyond a particular session. First we will be discussing what cookies are, what sessions are and why it is useful to store session state. Then we will be looking at different strategies for using cookies in ASP and PHP. Finally, we will finish ths article with a discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of using cookies, and offer an alternative.

This article is aimed at he beginning to intermediate web site programmer who may be struggling to fully utilize their web server, or who needs a backgrounder for the technologies available. Equally, the advanced internet user can use this article as an aid to judging the usefulness or otherwise of accepting cookies whilst browsing the web.

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The short answer to this question is simple, depending on your politics.One group sees peer to peer (P2P) networks as evil file sharing tools allowingmillions of otherwise law abiding citizens to inflict mortal damage to themusic, film and book publishing industries, mainly by downloading free ofcharge someone else’s “intellectual property”. Another side seesP2P as the dominant technology which empowers individuals to publishand consume media free of stricture or control.

If I ever get around to it, I’ll write a short article on the politicsof file-sharing. This article contains only technical information.

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