About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Tim Berners-Lee, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, MIME, HTTP Secure, HTTP cookie, List of HTTP status codes, XMLHttpRequest, List of HTTP header fields, HTTP Strict Transport Security, Digest access authentication, WebDAV, Dave Raggett, HTTP pipelining, Basic access authentication, Web cache, HTTP compression, HTTPsec, NetCache, HTTP persistent connection, Chunked transfer encoding, HTTP tunnel, CardDAV, Link prefetching, Tinyproxy, Session management, Web-based SSH, Files2u, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, HTTP Live Streaming, Internet Cache Protocol, Content negotiation, POST, Byte serving, Variant object, HTTP location, Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP-MPLEX, HyperText Computer, HTTP body data, Hxxp, Httperf, MMCache, Service Package Interpreter, HTTP header injection, Python Service Objects, Shared Dictionary Compression Over HTTP, HTTPU, Cache Array Routing Protocol, Request Based Distributed Computing. Excerpt: A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site. The state information can be used for authentication, identification of a user session, user's preferences, shopping cart contents, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data. Cookies are not software. They cannot be programmed, cannot carry viruses, and cannot install malware on the host computer . However, they can be used by spyware to track user's browsing activities - a major privacy concern that prompted European and US law makers to take actions. Cookies could also be stolen by hackers to gain access to a victim's web account. The term "cookie" was derived from "magic cookie," which is the packet of data a program receives and sends again unchanged. Magic cooki...
