Thanks for your help.

>>Please explain briefly how the HTML forms and Netscape cookies can be used to
store state information.
>
>You should never use Cookies as a mechanism to store data.
>instead use them (pardon the pun) as Cookies - an ID that
>references something like a record in a database. As such
>you're not really storing anything valuable on the client.
>
>Fear of cookies is entirely media hype - they serve a useful
>function for those sites that have to track users as they move
>through it.
>
>You can use other mechansisms such as URL 'parameters' or hidden
>form variables, but it's very tedious to make sure that *every*
>request on your site passes forward this cookie. If you have static
>pages this may not work - you'll need some dynamic mechanism to
>make this work correctly.
>
>>Secondly, What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two methods.
>
>Cookies are easy to use and can be transparent to the user.
>
>Using form vars or URL Ids is very tedious, but works with any browser
>and there's no way for users to refuse this type of Id. IOW, they
>have no choice which is as it should be for an application such as
>a Web store.
>
>+++ Rick ---