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Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

	HTTP cookie
     
         A packet of information sent by an HTTP
        server to a World-Wide Web browser and then sent back by
        the browser each time it accesses that server.  Cookies can
        contain any arbitrary information the server chooses and are
        used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP
        transactions.  Typically this is used to authenticate or
        identify a registered user of a web site without requiring
        them to sign in again every time they access that site.  Other
        uses are, e.g. maintaining a "shopping basket" of goods you
        have selected to purchase during a session at a site, site
        personalisation (presenting different pages to different
        users), tracking a particular user's access to a site.
     
        (http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie).
     
        (1997-01-15)