Help with question about web page access

[Ashley Carder]

> Actually, can you explain what advantage cookies provide?
> Is there something about cookies which they do which can't
> be done without cookies?????????????
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> Jerome Fine

Cookies can be used to maintain information about a user one THEIR
computer.  This way the user does not have to re-enter the same
information each time they visit a web site.  For example, I use cookies 
on some of my personal sites so that a user can tell me his/her name when
they first visit, then I drop a cookie on their system that contains their 
name and they never have to enter it again.  On subsequent visits I just
read for the cookie rather than asking them for their name again.  I use 
this to identify a particular user on some sites where I like to know who 
visits, but where the site's not sensitive enough to implement a user id 
and password login process. This works fine in a "non-public" computer
environment.

Ashley