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hi what stands for cookies and caches? - Tamilans - 04-27-2014 11:08 AM
Hi what stands for cookies and caches pls?
- rohit - 04-27-2014 11:23 AM
Cookies and caches are the save files of internet Browsers like opera mini, google crome. If u log in any social networking site through ur browser and after that cleared ur cookies and cache then u will be automatically log out cause u have deleted the save files of browser.
Thanks
- DunbarPappy®ϟϟ - 04-27-2014 11:26 AM
A “cookie†is HTML metadata,which is passed back and forth between your web browser and web servers, such as the language it would prefer, the web page which referred to the asset being requested, the designation of the web browser “user-agent†itself, the name of the server being queried at the connected IP address, and whether the connection should be kept alive and re-used for subsequent queries and replies, or whether it should be closed once the server has replied. All of those details are the metadata accompanying the web browser's initial query.
https://www.grc.com/cookies/terminology.htm
Cache is a webpage's components that usually do not change much, such as the banners, pictures, borders, headings; a bit like a 'skeleton' more or less.
Those are stored on your machine in case you need to recall the page (or if you click the 'back' arrow).
This 'on-board' copy of the page saves time when browsing. Rather than have to re-send a request all the way across the 'Net to the sites server, and return that page, you have it already.
Some parts may change on the server, but your browser sends a request to 'update' that whenever the page is loaded again. (The changing questions here on Yahoo Answers would be an example of that process.)