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HTTP Cookie
A cookie is a piece of information that a
web browser stores on behalf of a visited site.
This information might be something like site preferences or login status.
When the site is visited again, the information is returned to the site.
Cookies allow a
web server to maintain state over the basically stateless
HTTP protocoll.
See also
Cookies are defined in
RFC 6265 (HTTP State Management Mechanism)
In
Chrome, the cookies for the individual sites can be inspected with the special URL
chrome://settings/siteData/
.