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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Could i store settings in a cookie file?
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 15:32:26 +0100
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On 05.12.19 00:28, Jonas Thörnvall wrote:

> I have a client side script, are cookies dynamic?, can they be read
> and written by a client side script? If so could they be used to
> store settings for the script?
> 
> "I know absolutely nothing about cookies".

Cookies are usually send as header in an HTTP response and if the
browser already has a cookie for a specific domain it will also send the
cookie in the header with every HTTP request to the server.

You can create, access or modify cookies using the document.cookie property:

<https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.asp>


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Arno Welzel
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