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do cookies contain passwords??
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normally no, username maybe, but from a little I had read, some may contain your sessionId etc.
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No cookies are stored in client's machine and since they are not a secure enough to hold confidential information so they do not contain password. However as a text you can put password in cookies but you shouldn't do so. Password once validated should not be stored in any medium like cookies or session.
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Cookies should never contain passwords. You can have a cookie contain a session id. The session id can then point to a user in a database. From the database you can easily cross reference the user's password. By doing it this way you can have the session expire in the database after a few hours/days and also have the cookie to do the same.
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