资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

HTTP cookie
     
         A packet of information sent by an {HTTP
        server} to a {World-Wide Web} {browser} and then sent back by
        the browser each time it accesses that server.  Cookies can
        contain any arbitrary information the server chooses and are
        used to maintain {state} between otherwise stateless {HTTP}
        transactions.  Typically this is used to authenticate or
        identify a registered user of a {web site} without requiring
        them to sign in again every time they access that site.  Other
        uses are, e.g. maintaining a "shopping basket" of goods you
        have selected to purchase during a session at a site, site
        personalisation (presenting different pages to different
        users), tracking a particular user's access to a site.
     
        {(http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie)}.
     
        (1997-01-15)