HTTP cookie

small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser
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HTTP cookie

Summary

HTTP cookie ranks in the top 0.015% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,207 views/month, #12 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • HTTP cookie is credited with the discovery of Lou Montulli[2].
  • HTTP cookie's image is recorded as Internetcookie.png[3].
  • cookie is named after HTTP cookie[4].
  • HTTP cookie's subclass of is recorded as data[5].
  • HTTP cookie's part of is recorded as website[6].
  • HTTP cookie's Commons category is recorded as HTTP cookies[7].
  • HTTP cookie's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 65358[8].
  • HTTP cookie's has part is recorded as zombie cookie[9].
  • HTTP cookie's has part is recorded as supercookie[10].
  • HTTP cookie's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d18sk[11].
  • HTTP cookie's spoken text audio is recorded as HTTP cookie.ogg[12].
  • HTTP cookie's described by source is recorded as RFC 2965: HTTP State Management Mechanism[13].
  • HTTP cookie's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/cookies[14].
  • HTTP cookie's NE.se ID is recorded as cookie[15].
  • HTTP cookie's Treccani ID is recorded as cookie[16].
  • HTTP cookie's Quora topic ID is recorded as HTTP-Cookie[17].
  • HTTP cookie's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19616699[18].
  • HTTP cookie's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as informasjonskapsel[19].
  • HTTP cookie's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as cookie[20].
  • HTTP cookie's De Agostini ID is recorded as cookie[21].
  • HTTP cookie's KBpedia ID is recorded as HTTPCookie[22].
  • HTTP cookie's GitHub topic is recorded as cookie[23].
  • HTTP cookie's WikiKids ID is recorded as Cookie_(internet)[24].
  • HTTP cookie's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Témoin_(informatique)[25].
  • HTTP cookie's FOLDOC ID is recorded as HTTP+cookie[26].

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Works and Contributions

HTTP cookie is credited with the discovery of Lou Montulli[2].

Why It Matters

HTTP cookie ranks in the top 0.015% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,207 views/month, #12 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). HTTP cookie. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/http-cookie
MLA “HTTP cookie.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/http-cookie.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_http-cookie_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{HTTP cookie}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/http-cookie}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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