Where count is the number of times this page was hit since the browser was last started.

Clicking on Refresh will cause the page to be redisplayed and the counter to increment.

The counter is stored as a cookie cookiecounter by the client's browser. If the cookie cookiecounter does not exist, then the cookie is initialized to 1.

This example used buffered response output in order to be able to set the cookie value. Cookies must be sent along with the header before any other output is sent to the client's browser.

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