Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
CK Cookinseln, Islas Cook, Îles Cook, Isole Cook, Cook Islands, (esper.) Kukinsuloj
Informatik, Informática, Informatique, Informatica, Informatics, (esper.) komputiko

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A "magic cookie" or just "cookie" for short, is a token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, where the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program. The contents are opaque and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the cookie data back to the sender or perhaps another program at a later time. The cookie is often used like a ticket - to identify a particular event or transaction. The name "cookie" comes from a comparison to an unopened "fortune cookie", because of the hidden information inside.
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The word "cookie" in computer jargon is shorthand for "magic cookie". The UNIX manual pages, published initially in the seventies, and gradually swelling to massive volumes through the eighties and nineties, were liberally sprinkled with "magic cookies" and "magic numbers". I guess the terminology is rooted in the various computerized versions of dungeons-and-dragons type games, played by bleary-eyed programmers to fill up the time while their programs were being compiled, or to relieve the stress after a night of strenuous hacking. Technically speaking, the "magic cookies" and "magic numbers" were bit patterns found in a certain place within a file. They were used to identify the type of the file in question. The "magic cookie" was checked by computer programs to make sure the file was of the kind the program was allowed to operate on. Thus, a tape archiver program was only allowed to touch archive files, a loader was only allowed to load executable files, and so forth. The bit patterns constituting the "magic cookie" were chosen arbitrarily, but when they were absent, nothing worked. That's why they were "magic". Thus, the original meaning of "magic cookie" involved information passing from a file to a program reading the file. Later, the concept was extended to information being passed from a program to another program running on a different machine. Programs send each other "magic cookies" primarily for purposes of authentication. When you are browsing the New York Times web page, for example, the web server at the NY Times sends a cookie to you browser to identify you as a properly logged-on customer. Without the "cookie", they would have to have you log in every time you click on a link on their webpage, an annoyance up with which we would not put. I don't know when "magic cookie" began to be shortened to "cookie" tout simple, but I believe this is a relatively recent development. The question could be settled by searching the archives of the many UNIX-related discussion groups on Usenet.
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• "cookie": "Keks", "Plätzchen"
• "cookie": "Profildatei"

Space-Cookies oder Space-Cakes ist das umgangssprachliche oder Szene-Wort für Gebäck (Kuchen oder Kekse), die unter Zugabe von Cannabis oder Cannabisprodukten (Haschisch) hergestellt werden.
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What are cookies? A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a web server to store on a web browser so it can later be read back from that browser. This is useful for having the browser remember some specific information.
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1.2 Where did the term cookies come from?

According to an article written by Paul Bonner for Builder.Com on 11/18/1997:

"Lou Montulli, currently the protocols manager in Netscape's client product division, wrote the cookies specification for Navigator 1.0, the first browser to use the technology. Montulli says there's nothing particularly amusing about the origin of the name: 'A cookie is a well-known computer science term that is used when describing an opaque piece of data held by an intermediary. The term fits the usage precisely; it's just not a well-known term outside of computer science circles.'"

cookien. a screen, board, card, or cloth, cut with shapes or holes, used to throw a light pattern when shooting film or television; the light pattern thrown by such a device. Also cucoloris, cucolorus, cucaloris, kukaloris, kookaloris, cuke, coo-koo, kook, dapple sheet, ulcer, gobo.

How Internet Cookies Work

Cookies are widely used by Web sites to keep track of their visitors. These downloaded bits allow for customizable content, instant recognition, and more pointed marketing strategies. But are cookies letting Big Brother into your PC?

Inside this Article

• Introduction to How Internet Cookies Work
• Cookie Basics
• How does cookie data move?
• How do Web sites use cookies?
• Problems with Cookies
• Cookies on the Internet: Privacy Issues

• Internet Cookie Quiz
• What is an Internet cookie?
• How Internet Cookies Work

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Abstract

This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" ("HTTP") requests and responses. It describes three new headers, "Cookie", "Cookie2", and "Set-Cookie2", which carry state information between participating origin servers and user agents. The method described here differs from "Netscape's Cookie proposal" [Netscape], but it can interoperate with HTTP/1.0 user agents that use Netscape's method. (See the HISTORICAL section.)
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Former Netscape programmer Lou Montulli is credited with inventing the cookie, ...
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• Back to Basics: Internet Cookies
• ASP Session Cookies

COOKIE
Medium: Comic books
Published by: American Comics Group (ACG)
First Appeared: 1945
Creator: Dan Gordon

Songs and lyrics by The Cookies

• 1962 Chains by The Cookies
• 1963 Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby) by The Cookies
• 1963 Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys by The Cookies
• 1963 Will Power by The Cookies

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The name "cookie" derives from UNIX objects called "magic cookies". These are tokens that are attached to a user or program and change depending on the areas entered by the user or program.
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"Cookie" - A packet of information that travels between a browser and the web server.
The term was coined by web browser programmer Lou Montulli after the term "magic cookies" used by Unix programmers.

from "koekje", or in informal Dutch "koekie" [47] (= "biscuit", "cookie")

fortune cookie (W3)

magic cookie (W3)