Thursday, November 21, 2024, in Standards HTTP cookies are a small piece of data set by either Javascript or HTTP servers, and which are essential for maintaining state on the otherwise stateless system known as the World Wide Web. Once set, web browsers will continue to forward them along for every properly scoped HTTP request until they expire. I had been more than content to ignore the vagaries of how cookies function until the end of time, except that one day I stumbled across this innocuous...