What is a cookie? What are the steps need to be taken care during recording?

Cookie: A cookie is simply a piece of text stored on a client computer by a web application.

• Persistent cookies. Also called a permanent cookie, or a stored cookie, a cookie that is stored on a user’s hard drive until it expires (persistent cookies are set with expiration dates) or until the user deletes the cookie. Persistent cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific Web site
• Non-persistent cookies (also known as session cookies). Used by Commerce Server to track authenticated users who visit your site? When the session ends, the cookies are deleted. Non-persistent cookies store MSCSAuth tickets.

Both persistent cookies and non-persistent cookies can be encrypted. The non-persistent cookies contain the fields like User ID , Time of last login, Time Window.

Before recording all the persistent cookies need to be removed from the respective browsers.