What is a magic cookie?
A magic cookie, commonly known only as cookies, is information sent from the server to the client. It is different from other forms of sent data, because the content of the magic file is unreadable by the client. The purpose of the magic file is to provide a mechanism by which the server can monitor, verify or otherwise record information about the client in the client system without jeopardizing its own security. Finally, they evolved into web servers to save information about visitors on the web. The Cookie Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is widely used by many types of websites.
The use of a magic cookie allows many functions. Browsing information, such as items added to the shopping cart or links that have been marked as favorite, can be stored in magic cookies. Additionally, cookies are unreadable for the client system and allows the server to maintain any ownership or secure methods.
Magic cookies remains safe because the information it contains is encrypted in one way or another. Anyone is able to open a file in which a cookie is stored, but the information appears as long strings of seemingly random characters. The information is either encrypted or otherwise confused, so there is no sense without a special magic number that only the server knows and never translates.
There are two classifications of magical cookies. The first party cookie is the one that comes directly from the website visited. These are cookies that are often used to monitor the session or to record the user name and password. The second type is called a third -party cookie.
third -party cookies come from the web outside the web page. They are legitimate uses for third -party cookies, but can also be used to monitor the user's web habits without the user's knowledge. Controversy about privacy in dealing with CookThird -party IES led to add options in most web browsers to block them.
The cookie is just a piece of information sitting on a hard disk of a computer or other device. It is unable to be done or otherwise caused by harmful damage directly to the computer. With the exception of extremely rare cases of harmful hacking, only a server that has released a cookie is able to open and read the information it contains.