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Cookie

Meaning in web development, with examples

/ˈkʊki/nounCore term

In web development, cookie means: A small piece of data that a website stores in the browser and that is sent back with later requests, used for logins, settings and tracking.

In Turkish: çerez, cookie

How it is used

Servers set cookies with the Set-Cookie header; important attributes are HttpOnly, Secure and SameSite. Privacy rules in the EU and other regions are the reason many sites show a cookie banner asking for consent.

Example sentences

  1. The session cookie is HttpOnly, so JavaScript can't read it.

  2. Users stay logged in because we store a cookie for thirty days.

Common collocations

  • set a cookie
  • session cookie
  • third-party cookies
  • cookie banner
  • clear cookies
  • sessionThe period during which a server remembers a logged-in user, usually through an ID stored in a cookie, until the user logs out or the session expires.
  • authenticationThe process of checking who a user is, for example with a password, a one-time code or a login through a Google or Apple account.
  • CSRFCross-Site Request Forgery: an attack that tricks a logged-in user's browser into sending an unwanted request, such as changing an email address, to a site the user trusts.
  • browserA program such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge that downloads web pages and turns their code into the screens people read and use.

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