Sentence examples for session cookie from inspiring English sources

A "session cookie" is a cookie that gets removed from the browser when the browser is closed or stops running.

After a reevaluation, we discovered we had mislabeled a unique session cookie associated with AddThis's opt-out process as a tracking cookie.

That is because on open Wi-Fi networks, hackers using simple software programs can see and copy the unique code, called a session cookie, that servers issue to authenticate a person who has logged into a Web site.

The same applies for users of Facebook who are logged out at the time, while logged-in users should only be served a "session cookie" that expires when the user logs out or closes their browser, according to Article 29.

If I ask a website visitor permission and they decline, where do I store that information exactly, if not in a session cookie?

In the end, your session id will typically be stored in a local session cookie that tells a given that site that the session has indeed been authenticated.

Applications must use "session cookies" (if cookies are used) for local session state.

Inactive users (i.e., browsers w/out valid session cookies) should have been unaffected.

Hmm, good point Dan Liebke (@LiebCricket) I wish I'd had the foresight to bake third session cookies.

The University's websites make use of persistent cookies to save preferences and temporary (session) cookies to track logins and allow for site analytics.

This was demonstrated by a "network sniffer" called Firesheep, which could identify and steal the unencrypted "session cookies" some websites used to store information after you had logged on.