Friday, May 1, 2009

Advantages & Disadvantages of of Cookies

Advantages
Following are main advantages of using cookies in web application:
  • It's very simple to use and implement.
  • Browser's taking care send data.
  • For multiple sites cookies, Browser automatically arranges them.
Main disadvantages of cookies are:
  • Its store data in a simple text format. so it's not secure at all.
  • There is a size limit of cookies data ( 4096 bytes / 4KB).
  • Number if cookies also limited. Most Browser provides limits of storing cookies is 20. If new cookies came, it will discard the old one. Some of browser support up to 300.
  • We need to configure browser. It will not work on a high security configuration of browser. [I have explained about this in details.]

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