Recently, there have been a fair amount of articles concerning the
security of cookies. So I suggest that if you do choose to use
cookies for your web site, you do not use them to store any
sensitive information (like passwords, login names or personal
information about the user).
That being said, cookies can be very useful to hold information
that will customize the way your web site appears to certain users.
For example, you might use a cookie to disable any flash animations
on your website, if a user doesn't want to wait for them to
download.
The following is a set of JavaScript functions that will set and
retrieve cookies on a user's browser. The functions are all
commented, so they should be fairly easy to follow:
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