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August 19, 1998
Limit Your Cookie Size
There are a number of important limitations on the use of cookies by Web site developers. This is because cookies are intended to be used only for infrequent storage of small amounts of data on the user's machine. Although how much cookie information is stored and for how long is up to the browser makers, the following limits generally apply:

300 Cookies total
20Cookies per server (not per page or site)
4K of data Per cookie (both the name and value of the cookie count towards this limit)

As a result, it's not a good idea to create separate cookies for each value you'd like to save. Instead, combine those values into a single cookie separated by a known delimiter.

Boris Feldman
If you have a hot tip and we publish it, we'll pay you. However, due to accounting overhead we no longer pay $10 for a single tip submission. You must accumulate 10 acceptable tips to receive payment. Be sure to include a clear explanation of what the technique does and why it's useful. If it includes code, limit it to 20 lines if possible. Submit your tip here.
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