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andrewsolomon committed Oct 30, 2011
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While this is very easy, there are a number of problems:

* Size limit - the maximum length of a url is 2048 characters in Internet Explorer

* Privacy - Every internet server through which your request is managed can see what's in your shopping basket.

* Theft - You can add things to your basket just by modifying the url.

The solution to these problems is based the concepts of 'cookie' and 'session'.
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<b>cookie</b>) is generated by the web server and is included in the HTTP
response header. On subsequent calls to this website,
your browser will send this cookie in the HTTP request header.

* On receiving the user's cookie, the server uses it to retrieve any
data it has stored in relation to this user. The continuity of visits
to a website by a user, brought about by this data is referred
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