Cookies???

[Girl_needs_help]

i know what cookies are and what they're for. all i wana aknow is when u open them, u see all these numbers. They dont make no sense to me. all i see is some numbers they dont seem to make no sense to me. i wana know how to interpret them. i wana know what each and single number means and how dat works.
plz provide a URL of a website which can explain all dat.
many thanx in advance

[chinaski]

The contents of a cookie file are meaningful only to the web designer that creates the file.

Suppose you create a spreadsheet, and fill some columns with numbers that have some meaning to you. But you don't put any column headings or labels in the spreadsheet.

If someone else opens your spreadsheet, they can see your data, but they won't have any idea what the contents mean.

That's how a cookie file is. The contents are free-form, and have meaning only to the creator of the file.

[johndoe23]

Cookie: A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them. When you enter a Web site using cookies, you may be asked to fill out a form providing such information as your name and interests. This information is packaged into a cookie and sent to your Web browser which stores it for later use. The next time you go to the same Web site, your browser will send the cookie to the Web server. The server can use this information to present you with custom Web pages. So, for example, instead of seeing just a generic welcome page you might see a welcome page with your name on it.

The name cookie derives from UNIX objects called magic cookies. These are tokens that are attached to a user or program and change depending on the areas entered by the user or program. (Taken from Webopedia)

And try this link http://www.cookiecentral.com/