What is a Cookie  What is a Cookie?  A cookie is a small piece
of information sent to your browser which contains information
about settings you changed on a web site. For example, if you go
to an on-line bookstore and put 3 books in your cart but then
decide that you want to purchase those books later, the web site
will send a cookie to your browser with information on what
books you selected. When you visit that site again, the cookie
will be sent back to the site, and the site will display "where
you left off."  While some have theorized that cookies may be
being used to track information on your actions on a web site
for advertisement or monitoring purposes, cookies can be
considered a valuable and harmless tool for web sites to use to
"save your settings" for a particular page.  Good sources of
information on cookies are located within the links below:
http://www.cookiecentral.comMicrosoft's and Netscape's
definitions of a cookie   Internet Explorer
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