Arnon,
Thanks for the added info.

I responded NO to the "cookie" authorization last time I logged into UT and what I learned was that 'UT crumbles without the cookie'. In other words, I got a big red screen error saying that User name cannot be blank and I could not access UT at all.

So it appears, despite Michel's article saying that UT no longer needs to store anything on the user's PC, that this is not quite the case.

thanks again
Jim N.

>interested in what purpose it serves.
>>
>> Cookie Microsoft
>>
>> It's a word coming from the Internet, mostly Netscape.
>actually cookies are totaly supported by MSIE as in Netscape
>
>basically cookie is a small text file with some info a browser can save 9if
>you enable it)
>in a certain place on your HD
>this can serve to save information like preferences,passwords etc.
>it is considered a "security issue" because the remote host (via html,JS
>etc.) writes and reads data from your HD
>but I (at least) don't know of any security holes in handling cookies (ie
>using the cookies mechanism to read or write other parts of your HD) but I
>might be wrong
>
>Arnon