Can anyone help please

the_prophet

Dear all, I have been suspended from work for internet misuse and have now got some information to go on and have some question to ask and if anyone can answer I would be so grateful. A print out of internet usage has now been supplied and it makes very interesting reading but don't understand so much of it. I have been given a list of internet access and it reads like this.

COOKIE NAME ...........................LOCAL FILE ...........................LAST ACCESS TIME.........HITS
ebay.co.uk.......................****@ebay.co[1].txt......................16/12/2006 14.07.57.......2350
connextra.com..................****@connextra[4].txt...................08/01/2007 16.01.25........15
doubleclick.net.................****@doubleclick[1].txt..................18/02/2007 11.56.54.........30

This is just an example of many sites I am supposed to have accessed. What I would dearly love to know is
1. when you log onto a web site, how many cookies can it generate (on the cookie item names there are sites that I have never been to, do not recognize).
2. Is it possible that if you log onto a web site such as yahoo or other web sites where you have the ads that flash upon the web page, does it send a cookie of that particular web site that it is advertising and show in your cookie item that you have visited that particular web site even though the web site has not been visited at all.
3. (****@doubleclick[1].txt) **** are to protect company's identitiy. what does the 1 stand for in the bracket??. most of the brackets contain 1 and 2 but some contain 4,5 and 3.
4.(****@doubleclick[1].txt. What does it mean by txt. what information could there be on this.
5. Hits..... when you log onto a website (such as ebay) and surf within that website does that generate more hits on that website or is it just the initial log on that would count. For example ebay would have to have been accessed about 26 times per day for 9 months to have generated this amount of hits if only the initial log on counted which would be absolutely impossible.

Thankyou so much to anyone who takes the time to read the above and answer.

I have put this on another thread but not sure if its the right one hence putting it here as well

GreenNotM

well the easiest one to answer is that the [1] [2] [3] mean that there is already a file call that in the internet cache .... so sometime you have 5-6 cookies from the same site.

txt is just the extension that cookies use - they are a text file ..

the_prophet

thanks very much for this information

GreenNotM

Some sites pull in graphics from other sites - banners ads etc - so you are visiting their servers as you are taking info off these servers - know as third party cookies - it allows advertisers to know what sites are generating leads ...

For instance goto http://www.multimap.com/ Right click on any none flash ad and go to properties you will see that it comes from a differnt server. Some servers just exsist to server banner ads.

A hit can be every element downloaded from a website - so yes it can show multiple time.

No doubt this all was logged via your company's proxy/firewall etc as it is their kit and time you was using.

HTH I may have been over posted as I am working but it is my time etc

Chippy_Minton

1. Just one cookie file per site (domain) per user, I believe.
2. Yes, when the web page (e.g. Yahoo) contains ads the ads are usually hosted on another site and your browser retrieves the cookie from that site, and the cookie file is stored on your computer.
3. The [1] [2] etc. may be caused by multiple users storing cookie files in the same folder location. It depends whether browsers at the company are using a common folder for temporary internet files.
4. .txt means the cookie is a text file. You can open the file to see what's inside - usually form values, session data etc.
5. Not sure. Possibly the count of all different pages retrieved from that site.

the_prophet

many thanks this is all great info