Stephen Chalmers wrote:
"Martin Mrazek" <mr****@compik.fd.cvut.cz> wrote in message
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Hi,
how can one HTML document create more than one cookie? I have bloody
long html form, to save all its values in 4KB of one cookie is
impossible...
MM
How did you arrive at the conclusion that a document can create only one cookie?
It seems you need to read-up on the basics of cookie handling.
If you get stuck with some actual code, feel free to post it here.
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Stephen Chalmers
While you can have more than one cookie he is right that many browsers
limit the total size of all a site's cookies to 4k. If this limit
didn't exist, malicious sites could sit there generating cookies until
the user ran out of disk space.
My guess is Martin doesn't have access to server side databases, files,
and scripting languages (php, asp). Cookies aren't meant to store large
amounts of data, more along the lines of a small identification code
your site can read and then extract the relevant data from the site's
own database or stored records.
There's a convoluted way to transfer some of the overhead from cookies
to your web page and that's to profile standard settings.
For instance instead of storing,
verdana-12pt-bold-nounderline-red-green:hover you'd assign a profile
string of say 12. Read the cookie, extract 12 and of course 12 would
assign verdana-12pt etc...
Other than that there's not much else you can do to get around the
restriction. The only real option is to get access to a server side
scripting language and store the user data on the server and use cookies
to identify the record stored in your files.
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