What is a “cookie” and does TOXNET use “cookies”?
A “cookie” is information sent by a Web site server (e.g., TOXNET) to your computer. TOXNET creates “session cookies” on the user’s computer. These cookies last for the duration of the user’s connection to TOXNET. The cookie contains information about each search so that the history utility can combine and display previous searches. TOXNET itself does not keep track of what searches a user has made; it only has files listing the results of those searches. These temporary files are kept for no less than one hour and for no more than two hours. Each time a user requests a record from a search request, the results file is given a guarantee of one hour to live.
