HTTP Cookies Crash Course

Dive into a comprehensive video tutorial on HTTP Cookies, exploring their role as a storage medium in browsers and their transmission to servers with each request. Learn about cookie creation, properties, types, and security through examples and demonstrations. Discover how to create cookies using Document.cookie on the client-side and set-cookie headers on the server-side. Explore cookie properties, including domain-specific storage, path-specific cookies, and their impact on network bandwidth. Understand various cookie types such as session, permanent, httponly, secure, third-party, and zombie cookies. Examine cookie security concerns, including potential vulnerabilities like cookie stealing through XSS attacks and cross-site request forgery. Gain practical insights into implementing and managing cookies effectively in web applications.