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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1529216" data-attributes="member: 177">This I understand.  Which is why I thought that for simple counting and such, no cookie is required at all.  Just log the number of requests and to which IP they were sent.For clarity - when I said I thought of it as being "in the HTML document", I meant it in the same sense that an image reference is in the document - a reference telling the computer to load a file.  I assumed (apparently incorrectly) that it was simply another bit of HTML that they don't teach to those of us who don't need it.And the browser separates out the cookie and saves it as a text file for you?  Hm. Learn something new every day.</blockquote>