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What is Cookie? A Practical Definition

2026-07-283 min read

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What is Cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data a server asks a browser to store and automatically resend with every subsequent request to that domain. Cookies are how stateless HTTP gets state — sessions, login persistence, and preferences — layered on top, and their Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite attributes control how safely they are transmitted and accessed.

Example

Set-Cookie: session=abc123; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Strict

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