Using Cookies

A cookie is a piece of information that is sent to your Web browser—along with an HTML page—when you access a Web site or page. When a cookie arrives, your browser saves this information to a file on your hard drive. When you return to the site or page, some of the stored information is sent back to the Web server, along with your new request. This information is usually used to remember details about what a user did on a particular site or page for the purpose of providing a more personal experience for the user. For example, you have probably visited a site such as Amazon.com and found that the site recognizes you. It may know that you have been there before, when you last visited, and maybe even what you were looking at the last time you visited.

MicroStrategy Web products use cookies for a wide variety of things. In fact, they use them for so many things that the application cannot work without them. Cookies are used to hold information about user sessions, preferences, available projects, language settings, window sizes, and so on.