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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cookie</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cooked-mode.html" title="cooked mode"/><link rel="next" href="cookie-bear.html" title="cookie bear"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cookie</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cooked-mode.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="cookie-bear.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cookie"/><dt xmlns="" id="cookie"><b>cookie</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between
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cooperating programs. “<span class="quote">I give him a packet, he gives me back a
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cookie.</span>” The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a
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perfect mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is to
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relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same clothes back).
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Syn. <a href="../M/magic-cookie.html"><i class="glossterm">magic cookie</i></a>; see also
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<a href="../F/fortune-cookie.html"><i class="glossterm">fortune cookie</i></a>. Now mainstream in the specific sense of web-browser
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cookies.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cooked-mode.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="cookie-bear.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cooked mode<64></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>cookie bear</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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