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Cookie

nounid 2022·updated May 12, 2026
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A piece of state information supplied by a Web server to a browser, in a response for a requested resource, for the browser to store temporarily and return to the server on any subsequent visits or requests.

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Data0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Cookies
possessive
Cookie's
pluralpossessive
Cookies'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
§1
Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use. An HTTP server, when sending data to a client, may send along a cookie, which the client retains after the HTTP connection closes. A server can use this mechanism to maintain persistent client-side state information for HTTP-based applications, retrieving the state information in later connections.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
A piece of state information supplied by a Web server to a browser, in a response for a requested resource, for the browser to store temporarily and return to the server on any subsequent visits or requests.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use.
NIST SP 800-281 senseview framework →
§1
A piece of state information supplied by a Web server to a browser, in a response for a requested resource, for the browser to store temporarily and return to the server on any subsequent visits or requests.

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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