View Single Post
Old 2005-04-25, 07:54 PM   #15
sexcounter
Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know?
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 10
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleo
How are you able to set a cookie if all you are loading is a 1 pixel gif?
Whenever a request is made using http the response packet contains a set of headers before the response body. These headers describe attributes/meta-data regarding the response. One such header is Set-Cookie.
It doesn't matter if the body of the content is html, gif, jpg, xml, msword, random bits.

- Richard
__________________
<a href="http://www.sexcounter.com/index?ref=19">
<img src="http://images.sexcounter.com/ads/8831_01.gif" width="88" height="31" border="0"></a>
sexcounter is offline   Reply With Quote