You can use cookies (local files) to store information instead of having to post variables back and forth between pages. It's easy - just use the request.cookies and response.cookies objects and methods. To save a value to a cookie, simply create a value, such as oranges: response.cookies("oranges") = 13 -- now you have a cookie on your computer with a key name of "oranges" which has a value 13. To retrieve the information, use the request.cookies method as: myVar = request.cookies("oranges") which will retrieve the value 13. You can also use the cookies as collections, such as response.cookies("oranges")("navels")=13. Now you have 13 Navel Oranges stored. To retrieve, use the same format: myVar = request.cookies("oranges")("navels").

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