cookie ingredients

Five different attributes make up a cookie.  They tell the client how the cookie is to be used and stored.  Noneof the attribute names are case sensitive.  To separate the different attributes from each other in the cookie string, insert a semi-colon between them.  Apart from the name/value pair, all the other attributes are optional and, if they aren't present, they are assigned default values.

Available Cookie Attributes
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Attribute                                  Function
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NAME=VALUE                      The name and value of the cookie.  They are plain-text strings.

Expires=DATE                         Marks how long a cookie is valid.  Default value is the current session.

Path=PATH                              Restricts which URLs a cookie is sent to.  Default is the document that created
                                                  the cookie.

Domain=DOMAIN_NAME   Restricts what hosts a cookie is sent to.  Default is the host-name that created
                                                  the cookie.

Secure                                      Indicates that the cookie should be sent only if the current connection is done
                                                  over a secure protocol.  Default means all types of transfers are ok.
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