On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Without the cookie, users would need to authenticate themselves by logging in on each page containing sensitive information that they wish to access. It was derived from the term magic cookie, which is a packet of cookie quick a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers.

Together with John Giannandrea, Montulli wrote the initial Netscape cookie specification the same year. The development of the formal cookie specifications was already ongoing. In particular, the first discussions about a formal specification started in April 1995 on the www-talk mailing list. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. A persistent cookie expires at a specific date or after a specific length of time.

This makes the cookie less likely to be exposed to cookie theft via eavesdropping. For example, a supercookie with an origin of . The Public Suffix List is a cross-vendor initiative that aims to provide an accurate and up-to-date list of domain name suffixes. Due to media attention, Microsoft later disabled this code. A cookie wall pops up on a website and informs the user of the website’s cookie usage.