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if u run a webserver and want to read cookies on your clients' machines you may use php's $_COOKIE array. u can read about that in php manual at php.net. there u'll find a link to the http rules of w3c that explain the use of cookies in general.
a cookie must have a name and optional several other values like date of expire and so on. all in all not very interesting if u don't have to track users on your site.
cheers, jens
actually I meant how to decode those cookies . While viewing the cookies with the Cookie manager in netscape or mozilla, it shows the "information field" in an encoded manner. Is there any way to decode it ?
no, i don't think so
the values for the cookies are generated at the webserver and might be taken from a database and contain whatever the author of the website scripts felt like or whatever the dbms made of your username, password, insert time and so on.
cheers,
jens
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