RottenEggs.com Display Engine Is Cookie-Based

To function correctly, the Rotteneggs.com search engine relies on user session information stored on the server. This storage of the session information requires your browser to accept cookies.

The Rotteneggs.com Egg engine was developed using PHP3 technology. One of the benefits of using PHP3 is that we are able to temporarily store information about your search session on our server. This is far more efficient than continually passing this information back and forth over the internet between our server and your browser.

During your searching session, you need to identify yourself to us in order to take advantage of your stored session information. PHP3 uses cookies to send users their unique session keys. Cookies are bits of text information that are stored on your computer's hard drive. Once you receive your cookie, the information in the cookie is sent back to us with every request your browser makes to our site. Based on the information contained in the cookie, our site is able to identify you and match your request with your stored session information.

For example, every time you start a new search session on our site, we send your browser a cookie that contains a short text string like this:

ASPSESSIONID=PUYQGHUMEAAJPUYL;

path=/Search Every subsequent request you make to our server will send this information back to us, so we can uniquely identify your session information on our server.

Cookies are harmless

Cookies are small strings of text, and nothing more. They aren't capable of doing anything malicious to your computer.

And we will never use cookies to track your online behavior once you leave our site.