Week 8

Read chapter 9 in the book.  Chapter 9 is about creating, reading, and writing cookies.  Cookies are used in most e-commerce web sites to track visitor data, such as visitor preferences, shopping cart contents, etc

Testing cookies site1

Motorhead site.

When testing, you must test with a web server. Whether that means a real webserver, or the simplified web server that comes bundled with Brackets. Important: when using Brackets, make sure the live preview of the page is actually working, and you see 127.0.0.1:xxxx (which means local host) in the address bar. If you see file:///, the setting and reading of cookies will not work. Screenshots below a correct live preview.

When testing, you must test with a web server. Whether that means a real webserver, or the simplified web server plugin for Visual Studio Code (Live Server). Important: when using VS Code, make sure the live preview of the page is actually working, and you see 127.0.0.1:xxxx (which means local host) in the address bar. If you see file:///, the setting and reading of cookies will not work. Screenshots below a correct live preview.

Lab Cookie

For this exercise you need to create three web pages.

Page 1 - Write a JavaScript program on a web page that collects at least three pieces of data about a user and creates and writes a cookie.  This data could be such things as birthday, address, favorite color, etc.  Set the cookie to have an expiration period of 60 seconds.

Page 2 - A basic page with not much on it, but to simply go on to page 3.

Page 3 - Write a JavaScript program on a web page that reads the cookie back and displays the information contained in the cookie.

Note: You cannot use the same 3 things that we did in class.  Pick new items to read/write a cookie.

Assignment is due one instructional week from when it was assigned.  50% penalty if late.