| The Importance of Maintaining State | p. 1 |
| Why Maintain State? The Complexity of Transactions in the Real World | p. 2 |
| The Vending Machine | p. 3 |
| The Grocery Store | p. 3 |
| The Telephone Transaction | p. 6 |
| Buying a House | p. 8 |
| Border Crossings | p. 9 |
| Why Statelessness? State and Network Communications | p. 11 |
| State and Programming Structures | p. 14 |
| Cookies and Other Crumbs | p. 15 |
| Cookie Anatomy | p. 17 |
| Looking into Cookies | p. 18 |
| Cookies Today: Version 0 | p. 19 |
| Cookies Tomorrow: Version 1 and RFC 2109 | p. 23 |
| The Future of Cookies | p. 27 |
| Cookie Management | p. 29 |
| Security, Privacy, and Cookies | p. 30 |
| Cookies and "Spam" | p. 34 |
| Controlling Your Cookies | p. 35 |
| Cookie Management Options in Netscape Browsers | p. 35 |
| Cookie Management Options in Microsoft Internet Explorer | p. 39 |
| Third-party Programs | p. 45 |
| Proxies for Privacy--A Different Approach | p. 48 |
| Cookie Files: Examining and Blockading Cookies Directly | p. 50 |
| Should You Develop with Cookies? | p. 56 |
| Client-side Cookie Scripting | p. 59 |
| Why Client-side? | p. 60 |
| JavaScript and VBScript | p. 60 |
| Working with Strings and Dates | p. 62 |
| Strings and Dates in JavaScript | p. 62 |
| Strings and Dates in VBScript | p. 77 |
| VBScript 2, and 3--A Briefing | p. 89 |
| Cookie Management on the Client | p. 91 |
| The Strange Behavior of Document.cookie | p. 91 |
| Making it Sensible: Cookie Utility Functions | p. 94 |
| Utility Functions for Keeping Multiple Values in a JavaScript Cookie | p. 98 |
| Client-side Cookie Applications | p. 108 |
| CookieView | p. 109 |
| Personalizing Web Pages | p. 116 |
| Interface Management: Cookies and Frames | p. 124 |
| Interface Management: Cookies and Layers | p. 131 |
| Interface Management: Cookies and the Document Object Model | p. 134 |
| Taking Notes | p. 138 |
| Client Interactions with the Server | p. 141 |
| Server-side Cookie Applications | p. 143 |
| A Question of Resources | p. 144 |
| State and the Server | p. 146 |
| Border Crossings, Server-side | p. 147 |
| How Secure are These Borders Anyway? | p. 153 |
| Shopping Carts and Servers | p. 154 |
| Partitioning Applications | p. 156 |
| Cookie Communications | p. 158 |
| The Do-it-yourself Browser | p. 159 |
| HTTP Transactions | p. 159 |
| Putting the Parts Together | p. 163 |
| Cookies and CGI | p. 165 |
| Introduction to the Common Gateway Interface | p. 166 |
| CGI and Perl | p. 169 |
| Getting Started: Reading and Writing Cookies | p. 171 |
| Border Crossings with CGI | p. 179 |
| Building a Shopping Cart with CGI and Cookies | p. 187 |
| Cookies and Netscape Server-Side JavaScript | p. 195 |
| Building Applications on Netscape Servers | p. 196 |
| Session Management with Netscape Server Side JavaScript | p. 202 |
| The Server and Project Objects | p. 203 |
| The Client Object | p. 203 |
| Building a Mutating Site with the Client Object | p. 207 |
| Building Applications with Cookies | p. 214 |
| Collecting the Notepad Cookie | p. 214 |
| Building the Maze | p. 219 |
| Simple Shopping Cart | p. 228 |
| Cookies and Active Server Pages | p. 235 |
| ASP--A Introduction | p. 236 |
| The Active Server Page Object Model | p. 237 |
| Scripting Active Server Pages | p. 238 |
| Cookie Management in ASP: Working Directly | p. 241 |
| Reading Cookies | p. 241 |
| Writing Cookies | p. 249 |
| Cookies and Keys | p. 254 |
| State Management in ASP: Session Management | p. 257 |
| Cookie Munging | p. 261 |
| State Management in ASP: Border Crossings | p. 262 |
| State Management in ASP: The Shopping Cart | p. 269 |
| ASP and State Management Architectures | p. 276 |
| The Future of ASP: IIS 4.0 and Beyond | p. 277 |
| Cookies and Java | p. 279 |
| A Tiny Crack in the Sandbox | p. 280 |
| Java and Cookies on the Server | p. 288 |
| Setting and Showing Cookies | p. 290 |
| Session Maintenance | p. 296 |
| Entering the Danger Zone: State Management with Microsoft Site Server | p. 303 |
| From Sessions to Users | p. 306 |
| Multiple Sites, Same Cookies | p. 308 |
| The Dangers of Caching | p. 311 |
| Personalizing a Site | p. 312 |
| Rebuilding the Maze | p. 317 |
| Connecting to a Database--Sharing Personalized Information | p. 320 |
| IDs and Usage Analyst | p. 326 |
| What, Me Worry? | p. 332 |
| Cookies and the Future: Architectures and Technologies | p. 335 |
| Cookie Successors and Alternatives | p. 336 |
| Open Profiling System (OPS) and the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) | p. 337 |
| Beyond HTTP | p. 345 |
| Identity for Sale | p. 345 |
| Index | p. 349 |
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