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Asked: 2026-05-27T12:06:55+00:00

I’m reading up on here about cookies vs sessions. I see that the cookie

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I’m reading up on here about cookies vs sessions. I see that the cookie is sent with every HTTP request, and I want to make sure i understand how the internets work.

Say like I have a page: test.php. Test.php has 10 script tags on it that go and pull JS scripts () and 5 tags that go pull images. Is loading Test.php 1 request or 16 requests?

I’m using a cookie to store last 10 visited urls and custom favorite urls. The favorite URLs can get pretty big. So I want to make sure that my 1KB of cookie data is sent only 1 time and not 16 times for each request.

Also, I’m using cookies because I already save my permission structure in SESSION, and that can get pretty big too…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, it’s 16 requests.

    I recommend you only use the session_id cookie to identify your visitor (in PHP it’s PHPSESSID I believe, it will get set automatically if you use session_start()). Store the actual session data in a database or some data container of your own. This enables you to put as much in your a session as you want and prevents you from setting and sending too many cookies.

    See: session_set_save_handler, it’s a very useful function.

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