| Internet Texas uses
several Active Server Pages (ASP). Active Server Pages allow the
Webmaster to utilize advanced features with the web page. Some of
the features that Internet Texas uses require the use of ASP. This
feature can be used for rotating messages, sound, customized web
pages and other features that we wish to have on our pages.
The unfortunate side effect is that with some web
browsers, when you bring up an ASP page it wants to send you a temporary
cookie. This cookie provides us with information about your web browser.
This information will allow us to better use ASP to generate a web page
that is best suited for your browser. Example... If you are using
Internet Explorer then the tag
bgsound src= "/sounds/christmas/bcjnglbl.mid"
will play the Jingle Bells tune on your speakers (if
you have a sound board), however if you are using Netscape then it
requires the statement
EMBED SRC="../sounds/christmas/bcjnglbl.mid"
hidden="true" autostart="true"
loop="1"
to play the sound. With
ASP pages we can provide a method for the web server to determine what
browser you are using and tailor some of the web page commands to your
browser. Active Server pages can also provide us information about what
web pages you looked at while on the Internet Texas Web Server it can not track you
after you leave this server. The cookie also can not harm your
computer in anyway. Since the cookie is temporary nothing is
actually written to your hard drive. We have supplied a general
description of what a cookie is and what it does at the bottom of
this page.
Cookies are not harmful so
it you are getting the cookie message and do not want to receive it
then you can turn the warning feature off.
For Windows 95 with
Internet Explorer 3.xx
or Windows 3.1x with
Internet Explorer 3.xx
- Start Internet Explorer
- Click View
- Click Options
- Click Advanced
- Click Warn before
accepting "cookies" (it should be unchecked)
- Click Apply
- Click OK
This procedure should
prevent the "cookie message"
For Windows 95 with Internet Explorer
4 or 5
- Start Internet
Explorer
- Click View
- Click Options
- Click Advanced
- Scroll down to Security
then to Cookies. You will fine 3 choices. Select the one that you
want by clicking the circle next to it.
- Click Apply
- Click OK
If you selected "Disable
all cookie use" then all cookies will be ignored. This also means
that some web sites may not be able to provide you with optimal
information. If you selected "Always accept cookies" then you will
no longer get the message.
Cookies: What they are and what
they do!
"Cookies" are small pieces of
information which are sent to your browser from a World-Wide Web
server. This data is checked for length, expiration date, path, and
domain and then saved in your cookies file. The server which sent
the cookie reads back the information from your browser the next
time you load a page falling in the range of the specified domain.
This is useful for having the browser remember some specific
information across several pages.
Cookies can't access
information about your local system. A Cookie can be used to observe
your browsing habits on the server that sends you the cookie.
Information that you supply to a web page, such as a form, can also
be stored. For examples, if you submit a query to a search engine
this can be recorded in your Cookie file. Or if you fill out a form
which asks for your e-mail address this information can be accessed
in the future from the server. But only from the server that has
sent the cookie. It is impossible for another server to access other
Cookies which don't fall in the range of its domain. Cookies that
haven't been expired are written from your browser at the end of
each session to a cookie file, so they can be reloaded next time you
run your browser.
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