Cookies

by Simon St. Laurent

Suppose you had the only cookies in town? That's what this book gives you. Cookies is the only book to focus on this important programming tool that helps users keep track of where they are in a Web site. This book gives developers and content providers every crumb of information they need about cookies! Cookies' Unique details that developers need to create cookies with maximum functionality; tools, techniques, and standards for both Netscape and Explorer; Cookies and Java-when, how, and whether to use them; help in anticipating and meeting new standards; simulated cookies for browsers that can't handle or refuse cookies; alternative to cookies, including Open-Profiling Standard, digital signatures, and proposed security models; site architecture considerations; facilitating electronic commerce with cookies; cookies, responsibility, and privacy.

376 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1998

About the author

Simon St. Laurent is a Content Manager at LinkedIn Learning, focusing primarily on front-end web projects. He has been co-chair of the Fluent conference and of OSCON. He's authored or co-authored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails 3, XML Pocket Reference, 3rd, XML: A Primer, and Cookies.

You can find more of his writing on technology, Quakerism, and the Town of Dryden at simonstl.com.