|
Statistic |
Growth |
Source |
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Value of electronic commerce transactions,1996 |
$12M |
Jupiter Communications, Inc. (1998) |
|
Value of electronic commerce transactions, 2000 |
$2.16B |
Jupiter Communications, Inc. (1998) |
|
Online revenue in the gaming market, 1997 |
$93.3M |
Frost & Sullivan (1998) |
|
Projected gaming revenue, 1998 |
$169.6M |
Frost & Sullivan (1998) |
|
Total purchases over the Web, 2001 |
$228B |
Piper Jaffray, Inc. (1997) |
|
Percent that will be consumer to business |
11% |
Piper Jaffray, Inc. (1997) |
|
Percent that will be business to business |
89% |
Piper Jaffray, Inc. (1997) |
|
Total purchases over the Web, 1997 |
$10B |
International Data Corp. (1997) |
|
Total purchases over the Web, 2001 |
$220B |
International Data Corp. (1997) |
|
Percent that will be business-to-business transactions, 2001 |
80% |
International Data Corp. (1997) |
|
Percent of banking Web sites offering transactions to customers on the Internet |
35% |
Meridien Research report, Internet-based Financial Services (1998) |
|
Percent of brokerage Web sites offering transactions |
20% |
Meridien Research report, Internet-based Financial Services (1998) |
Figure 2 Set-Cookie Response Header Values
|
Parameter |
Description |
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name=value; |
Returns as a string of all the cookies that apply to the page. The server must parse the string to find the values of individual cookies. |
|
Expires=date; |
Deletes the cookie when the browser is closed if no expiration is set on a cookie. The cookie is saved across browser sessions if an expiration date is set. Setting an expiration date in the future causes the cookie to be saved across browser sessions. |
|
domain=domainname; |
Pages on a domain made up of more than one server can share cookie information. |
|
path=path; |
Allows the current document to share cookie information with other pages within the same domain. If no path
is specified, the path is assumed to be the path of the resource associated with the Set-Cookie header. |
|
secure; |
Allows the stored cookie information to be accessed or sent only from a secure environment (HTTP servers). |
Figure 3 Cookie Manipulation
|
Collection |
Parameters |
|
Cookie |
Required. Specifies the cookie whose value should be retrieved. |
|
Key |
Optional. Retrieves subkey values from cookie dictionaries. |
|
Attribute |
Optional. Can specify attributes about the cookie itself (such as if the cookie contains keys). |
Figure 4 IReadCookie Methods
|
Method |
Description |
|
Get_HasKeys |
Retrieves a Boolean indicating whether the cookie has keys |
|
Get_Item |
Retrieves the specified item from a cookie dictionary |
|
Get_NewEnum |
Enumerates through the cookies collection |
Figure 5 IWriteCookie Methods
|
Method |
Description |
|
get__NewEnum |
Retrieves an enumerator for the Cookies collection |
|
get_HasKeys |
Retrieves a Boolean indicating whether the cookie has keys |
|
put_Domain |
Sets the Domain attribute of the cookie to the specified value |
|
put_Expires |
Sets the Expires attribute of the cookie to the specified value |
|
put_Item |
Adds an item to the Cookies collection |
|
put_Path |
Sets the Path attribute of the cookie to the specified value |
|
put_Secure |
Sets the Secure attribute of the cookie to the specified value |