• name. The name of the cookie. A quoted string. Required. Example: "listSelectedIndex".
• value. The value of the cookie. A numeric value or a quoted string. Required. Example: 5.
• expires. Expiration date of the cookie. A date object. Optional. Defaults to the end of the current session. Example: now.
• path. The path for which the cookie is valid. A quoted string. Optional. Example: "/foo/bar/html". Defaults to the path of the document or script that set the cookie.
• domain. The domain for which the cookie is valid. A quoted string. Optional. Example: "www.internet.com". The default value of the domain attribute is the host name of the server that set the cookie.
• secure. A Boolean value indicating whether the cookie transmission requires a secure protocol. Default to false.

To set up a date object to expire in one year, you need to multiply the following:

• 365 days in a year.
• 24 hours in a day.
• 60 minutes in an hour.
• 60 seconds in a minute.
• 1000 milliseconds in a second.

The following line of code computes the date object for the year-long cookie:

  var now = new Date();
  now.setTime(now.getTime() + 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

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