Cookies

A default installation of DokuWiki sets three cookies.

As you can see, the default cookies required are functional cookies only. No tracking is implemented with these cookies.

Used for authentication after login. This holds the necessary data to (re)login a previously authenticated user.

  • Importance: necessary for anyone who needs to log in
  • Typical content: encrypted username and password
  • Expires: in a year 1)

Used for remembering helpful user preferences, like the size of the editor textarea.

  • Importance: functional
  • Typical content: name/value pairs in plain text
  • Expires: in a year

The standard PHP session identifier. Used to hold temporary data and to avoid CSRF attacks.

  • Importance: necessary
  • Typical content: random ID
  • Expires: at the end of the browser session

Source: DokuWiki


1)
if “Remember me” was checked when logging in, otherwise: at the end of the browser session
  • Last modified: 2023/01/09 12:58
  • by Johan Lundblad