Cookies

Used for authentication after login. This holds the necessary data to (re)login a previously authenticated user.

• Importance: necessary for anyone who needs to log in
• Typical content: encrypted username and password
• Expires: in a year ¹⁾

Used for remembering helpful user preferences, like the size of the editor textarea.

• Importance: functional
• Typical content: name/value pairs in plain text
• Expires: in a year

The standard PHP session identifier. Used to hold temporary data and to avoid CSRF attacks.

• Importance: necessary
• Typical content: random ID
• Expires: at the end of the browser session