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This essay does not describe an existing computer program, just one that should exist. This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project in any way you please and to keep all the profits from your endeavor.

One of the most frequent questions you see in the newsgroups is "how do you handle cookies", either in the client to simulate what a browser does with them, or to emulate the sorts of things an CGI-Server does with them. Just read "cookies " in the Java & Internet Glossary and get a copy of Marty Hall’s book to learn how to do it. Create two classes, one for client and one for server. For bonus points, write a class to directly analyse and manage the Netscape cookies file.

This is a project even a relative novice could tackle successfully, and still produce something of value to the entire Java community. The class does not have to be useful, only informative.

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