Cookies
What is a cookie
Cookies are a bit like the cloakroom ticket you get when you hand over your coat to a cloakroom attendant. The attendant gives you a unique-numbered ticket when you leave your coat at the counter, and then when you come back later on, the attendant can use the ticket to match you with your coat.
When surfing a web site, the web server gives your browser a cookie. This is a small bit of textual information, usually with some unique identifier number in it. The browser remembers this information, and shows it to the server when asking it for more pages from that web site that are customised for you. Your browser is smart enough to know only to show the cookies that it got from that web site in the first place, and not from any other web site.
Turning cookies on and off
From the menu of your browser, click on Help and then Contents, and then search for 'cookies'. Follow the help instructions for accepting or blocking cookies.
To use Careersoft's interactive programs, like JED and Higher Ideas, your browser has to be set to accept cookies. The program will generate a warning message if your browser is not accepting cookies from it.
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Page date 14/02/08