i would like to know wheather cookies handles passwords.if so where they contain.
ravikiran032
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Jump to Postnormally no, username maybe, but from a little I had read, some may contain your sessionId etc.
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stephen84s
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normally no, username maybe, but from a little I had read, some may contain your sessionId etc.
jack239
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No cookies are stored in client's machine and since they are not a secure enough to hold confidential information so they do not contain password. However as a text you can put password in cookies but you shouldn't do so. Password once validated should not be stored in any medium like cookies or session.
paradox814
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Cookies should never contain passwords. You can have a cookie contain a session id. The session id can then point to a user in a database. From the database you can easily cross reference the user's password. By doing it this way you can have the session expire in the database after a few hours/days and also have the cookie to do the same.
jwenting
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duckman
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they shouldn't, but that doesn't mean they don't...
It all depends on how the website was programmed.
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