What is the number and size of cookies allowed by major browsers?

Question

Just wondering what is the size and number of cookies allowed by IE, FF, Chrome, and Safari. What is the number allowed per host and the size of each cookie? Also what would

Answer 1

AFAIK the number of cookies you can set is 20 per domain or 300 maximum and each cookie across the board is generally capped at a 4k limit.

The RFC for cookies (section 6.3) has most of the information you want to find.

As far as setting a cookie larger than the recommended size is concerned, I would suggest that some browsers will handle that differently, but taking the lowest-common denominator into consideration (IE6), I'd suggest you consider different forms of data persistence if you have that much data you need to store.