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What Are Cookies?
"Cookies" are data that web sites send to your computer while running a web browser that can record things such as where you've visited in a site, how often you've visited the site, ..etc. While cookies normally do not associate your actual name with the places you visit, if the web site happens to pick up your name and cross-references the two pieces of information, that web site can find out a lot of things about you personally that you may not wish the web site's administrators to know.
Cookies are useful in situations where you wish a web site to remember configuration options regarding the website.
Newer web browsers have options to warn you before accepting a "cookie" from an Internet site, and there are shareware/freeware programs available to completely remove cookies from a system.
It has been suggested, if you use Netscape, to simply write-protect your "cookies.txt" file if you do not wish to receive cookies.
What is an Url?
SUMMARY: Just what exactly does the term URL mean regarding the Internet?
(Please note that this information is not 100% complete but should include enough relative information for most people).
An URL (Uniform or Universal Resource Locator, depending on who you ask), is an address for information on the net. It is not necessarily an address to web-based information, although these addresses are used most frequently with web browsers.
An URL consists of the following:
[resource type]://[path to file]
The [resource type] can be any one of the following. This is just a list of very common resource types.
http - hyper-text transfer protocol. A website or webpage, more or less
ftp - file transfer protocol. A file or directory on a computer that is setup to transfer files over the Internet
news - USENET newsgroups. Message forums that span the world
file - any file on your machine. Yes, you can view files on your machine with a program that supports urls.
gopher - the GOPHER service. A menu-based hierarchy of information rarely used nowadays.
The [path to file] is the exact path to the file on a system. Note that it is recommended to use the Un*x based method of denoting directories and subdirectories with a slash '/' instead of a back-slash '\'. If the path to file ends with a slash instead of a filename (such as index.htm, file.exe, graphic.gif, etc.), then normally an index file or home file will be accessed, if available. Else, this sometimes brings up a list of files in the directory specified by the url.
"Cookies" are data that web sites send to your computer while running a web browser that can record things such as where you've visited in a site, how often you've visited the site, ..etc. While cookies normally do not associate your actual name with the places you visit, if the web site happens to pick up your name and cross-references the two pieces of information, that web site can find out a lot of things about you personally that you may not wish the web site's administrators to know.
Cookies are useful in situations where you wish a web site to remember configuration options regarding the website.
Newer web browsers have options to warn you before accepting a "cookie" from an Internet site, and there are shareware/freeware programs available to completely remove cookies from a system.
It has been suggested, if you use Netscape, to simply write-protect your "cookies.txt" file if you do not wish to receive cookies.
What is an Url?
SUMMARY: Just what exactly does the term URL mean regarding the Internet?
(Please note that this information is not 100% complete but should include enough relative information for most people).
An URL (Uniform or Universal Resource Locator, depending on who you ask), is an address for information on the net. It is not necessarily an address to web-based information, although these addresses are used most frequently with web browsers.
An URL consists of the following:
[resource type]://[path to file]
The [resource type] can be any one of the following. This is just a list of very common resource types.
http - hyper-text transfer protocol. A website or webpage, more or less
ftp - file transfer protocol. A file or directory on a computer that is setup to transfer files over the Internet
news - USENET newsgroups. Message forums that span the world
file - any file on your machine. Yes, you can view files on your machine with a program that supports urls.
gopher - the GOPHER service. A menu-based hierarchy of information rarely used nowadays.
The [path to file] is the exact path to the file on a system. Note that it is recommended to use the Un*x based method of denoting directories and subdirectories with a slash '/' instead of a back-slash '\'. If the path to file ends with a slash instead of a filename (such as index.htm, file.exe, graphic.gif, etc.), then normally an index file or home file will be accessed, if available. Else, this sometimes brings up a list of files in the directory specified by the url.
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