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Asked: 2026-05-28T05:44:12+00:00

In books and tutorials related with Web-programming written that cookies expire when user close

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In books and tutorials related with Web-programming written that cookies expire when user close browser. So I cant understand why after closing browser(Opera) I can see the list of my cookies in “Parameters” window. And how sites (for example Facebook) identifier users after closing browser (session cookies must expire according to books and tutorials)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Cookies are of two different types:

    • session cookies, held in memory, and which expire once the browser exits
    • persistent cookies, which have a time-to-live, are persisted on disk, and are sent by the browser until their time-to-live has elapsed.

    Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

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