What are cookies and how are they used for FirstNet?
A cookie is information sent from a web site to a visitor’s computer while he or she is visiting the site. FirstNet requires that your browser accept per-session cookies. Per-session cookies are frequently used by Active Server Pages (ASP) running on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). These cookies store session information as the user navigates to multiple ASP pages in a Website. In fact, virtually any Website using ASPs requires session cookies. If sites didn’t use session cookies, a “session” could not exist. The net result would be that a user would have to “log in” on every page (i.e. enter user code and password on every page). Per-session cookies are cached (in memory) only while you are visiting FirstNet. They are deleted from the cache when you close the browser. These cookies only contain information that identifies a session that has been established by FirstNet. The session cookie does not contain any customer information. Again, these cookies are removed from you
