Cookies

by Simon St. Laurent

Book Overview

Cookies are a mystery of Web programming. They're rumored to have been the cause of malevolent invasions of privacy, virus mongering, and security breaches. In reality, they are a highly efficient... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070504989
• ISBN13: 9780070504981
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

What the hell is a cookie, anyway? Well, now you know.

With the growing interest in privacy and consumer sentiment about the tracking of their browsing behavior, understanding cookies and their role in an internet browsing session has a broad audience. St Laurent serves this audience well with an engaging book written in an accessible style. He has an interesting knack for finding the right balance of technical depth and contextual breadth for his topic. Although the book is focused on cookies and the need for managing state in the potentially stateless world of the web, it also represents a good primer on browsers, web servers, and related matters. He uses a number of simple scripting exercises that almost anyone can do. The examples really help the reader understand by doing rather than just reading. I have recommended this book to a number of "technically challenged" colleagues who have consistently given me the feedback that they not only gained a good perspective on what cookies are used for, but walked away with a better overall understanding of how the web works. The only reason I can't give this book 5 stars is that it is two years old, and so much has happened since it was published, that it already needs a second edition! Nonetheless, it is a great resource for a wide audience.

THE BOOK on cookies

Well if you want to be able to make a shopping cart, make a mission statement compiler or just about anything else with cookies THIS IS THE BOOK. Even if you don't have mush programming experience this book would be good for you. This is definitely a good book for all web developers.

This book saved the day.

This is a great book! My only problem is it went from the basics to advanced, totaly skipping the imtermediate levels of cookies. This book filled in all the gaps in the JavaScript Bible and THEN some! I recommend it to any one that developes web sites!

It's great that there's at least one book on the subject!

This book is very well written with source code included. The only thing lacking is an electronic source. I spent many hours combined debugging my code since there is no media with the book. It is fantastic however. A definite must for developing complex cookie based solutions.