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7 The Future of Cookies

A few alternatives to cookies have been proposed, e.g. The Brownie project, an open sourceNote: "open source" in the intelligence community simply means "any information accessible to the public, possibly after paying a fee". This article is about open source software, a more common meaning for the term "open source". Open source or open sourc project at SourceForgeSourceForge is a collaborative software development management system. SourceForge software is sold by VA Software. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of open source applications (suc. Brownies were to be for sharing across multiple domains, as opposed to cookies that are (supposedly) constrained to a single domain. The project is no longer in development.

8 References

This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is used under the GFDL.

9 External links

Persistent client state - HTTP cookies - Preliminary specification (Netscape)
Session Fixation (PDF)
The unofficial cookie faq
"Can you show me what XSS cookie theft looks like?" (excerpt from the Cgisecurity Cross Site Scripting FAQ)
CERT® Advisory CA-2000-02 Malicious HTML Tags Embedded in Client Web Requests : cf. 'Attacks May Be Persistent Through Poisoned Cookies' paragraph
description of a cookie poisoning attack
Are Cookies Dangerous An article explaining what cookies are and what to be careful of.

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HTTPHTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. The original purpose was to provide a way to publish and receive HTML pages. Development of HTTP was co-ordinated by the World Wide Web Consortiu	HTTPSHTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the communication protocol of the World Wide Web. It was invented by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide authentication and encrypted communication and is used in electronic commerce. Instead of using plain	HTTP cookieAn HTTP cookie (usually called simply a cookie is a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. They were invented by Lou Montulli, a former employee of Netscape C
HTTP(P2P)HTTP(P2P is a protocol based on HTTP created to generate interest in developing peer based solutions to flash crowds (the Slashdot effect & ). External link .

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