Testing Cookies

Hi Everyone

Could anyone pls let me know , What is the Cookies? .

What is the correct method to test it

Thanks
Amit

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by PRITHVI RAJ D.Y on April 14, 2011 at 1:47pm

Hi,

cookie can be considered as a program which is sent by the server on to our system. the purpose of sending it is authentication and also for server based sessions. ther are 2 diff cookies.... persistent (have got no expiry time) and in-persistent (expiry time exists) cookies

eg:

when u open gmail in some browser and close the browser without sign out from your account and open the same browser-> gmail page again, it directly opens ur account.. its because the cookies stored in ur browser will have communication with the server and stays alive (persistent cookies).. and in persistent cookies life time gets over when ever the browser gets closed, u may see these kind of cookies in banking websites... like page gets expires after some particular time and ur account wont get opened automaticallly just like it happened in case of a persistent cookie

Permalink Reply by Sonal on September 6, 2011 at 4:58pm

Thnx for this.........

can u share cookies checklist means standard testcase for web security......?

Permalink Reply by Samrat Jha. on September 15, 2011 at 5:39pm

Prithvi,

I am completely disagree with You... cookie is not sent by the Server .. in fact it is created by the Web client ( Browsers ) with the help of Web Server... !

As far as your example is concerned :- "

eg:

Who told you that your account will be opened directly....?? It depends on the Web client You are using ... If you do the same steps using Internet Explorer it will not open your account rather will ask you to login again... but with Mozilla and GC you will be logged in... so it has more to do with the Internal functioning of the different browsers................

Regards:

Samrat.

Permalink Reply by sowmya on April 23, 2012 at 7:24pm