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Definitions of magic cookie:

• Magic Cookie is a file created by Microsoft Explorer and Netscape Navigator, kept in the preferences folder. The file stores data about what websites and pages within the site the user visits. This information can be used by the servers for marketing analysis, to generate mailing lists, or other uses.
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• In computer programming, a magic cookie or cookie 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.
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