magic cookie
A token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, used to…A token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, used to identify a particular event or transaction; the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the data back to the sender or another program at a later time.
Meaning
1 sensesA token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, used to identify a particular event or transaction; the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the data back to the sender or another program at a later time.
Origin
From magic + cookie. First attested in c. 1979.From magic + cookie. First attested in c. 1979.
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Forms
plural: magic cookies| Singular | magic cookie |
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| Plural | magic cookies |
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