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A distinction without a difference as not every interaction involves a browser. It can be used in the same manner as an identifier cookie (it doesn’t carry a payload) for cases that do not involve a browser.


It’s not a distinction without a difference.

Some people here seem to think it is available in the browser. Using the word ‘cookie’ furthers that false belief.

I otherwise agree with you.


The term “magic cookie” in the sense used by browsers predates the WWW. That’s why the term was used.


True, but the term ‘magic cookie’ is not the term we use today. If you said magic cookie I’d know you were using the historical term. I’m old enough to remember but most people here are not.




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