Information Privacy
How
do cookies work?
p. 594 Fig. 11-27
Next
Step 1. When you type Web address of Web site
in your
browser window, browser program searches your hard disk for a
cookie associated with Web site.
Step 2. If browser finds a cookie, it sends
information in cookie file to Web site.
Step 3. If Web site does not
receive cookie information, and is expecting it, Web site creates an
identification number for you in its database and sends that number to your browser.
Browser in turn creates a cookie file based on that number and stores cookie file
on your hard disk. Web site now can update information in cookie files whenever
you access the site.
Web server for
www.company.com
www.company.com