COOKIE
\kˈʊki], \kˈʊki], \k_ˈʊ_k_i]\
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A piece of information that a website stores on a visitor's hard drive so that the website can retrieve the information when the visitor returns to the site. For example, a website may use a cookie to retrieve a visitor's name and address so the visitor doesn't have to enter that information again. A website can legally use cookies to personalize a visitor's experience, to track a visitor's movements on a site or to target a visitor for specific advertisements. Generally, a cookie cannot be used to corrupt or steal data, such as an email address, from a visitor's hard drive.
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1. HTTP cookie.2. A handle, transaction ID, or other token ofagreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet,he gives me back a cookie".The ticket you get from a dry-cleaning shop is an example of acookie; the only thing it's useful for is to relate a latertransaction to this one (so you get the same clothes back).Compare magic cookie; see also fortune cookie.3. A cracker term for the password liston a multi-user computer.4. An adjective describing a computer that justbecame toast.
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