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Tracking cookies
• Used to track internet users' web
browsing.
1. When user requests a page of the site
with no cookie, the server presumes
that this is the first page visited by the
user, and creates a token and sends it
as a cookie back.
2. The cookie will automatically be sent to
the server every time; the server will
stores the requested URL the time of
the request, and the cookie into log.
• By analyzing the log, it is possible to find
out which pages the user has visited, in
what sequence, and for how long. Then,
figure out the trending of users’ habit.