What are cookies, anyway? Are they tasty?

A cookie is a small bit of information about you that the web server sends to your client. Your client then offers that information to the web server every time you visit a page on it thereafter.

Cookies are frequently used by web sites as part of their login process; when you enter your username and ( Read more... )

What is a login, anyway?

Login is the term used to describe the process of using your username and password to prove your identity to a service, particularly to begin a series of communications with that service that will not require you to enter your username and password with every transaction.
This all sounds great. So what's the problem?

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What is a cache, anyway? Can I spend it?

A cache is a copy of some or all of the files from an internet site that your browser downloads when you visit that site. If you return there within a certain period of time, the browser displays the copies instead of going to the site again to retrieve the files, which speeds up your browsing and saves ( Read more... )