Labels:cup | curtain | fence | hakham | plaything | poster | railing | sky | windowpane | workwear OCR: THE WEB AND E-MAIL 3 87 How do shopping carts work? As mentioned earlier, HTTP is a state- less protocol which fulfills single request for Web resource and then immediately forgets about it Under these circumstances, you might wonder how it is possible for an online retail store to remember the items you put in your shopping cart Most shopping carts work because they use cookies to store information about your activities on a Web site Cookies work with shopping carts in one of two ways, depending on the e-commerce site An e-commerce site might FIGURE 7-31 use cookies as storage bin for all the items you load into your shopping Shopping cart items can be cart, as shown in Figure 7-31 stored in a cookie Your order ADD TO CAR Blender $29 95 When you click the Add to Cart Wok $38 49 button, th ...
