This installation of DokuWiki sets three cookies.

• DW<hash>
  • 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⁾

• DOKU_PREFS
  • 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

• DokuWiki
  • 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