I want to comply with the EU Cookie Law and need to know what kind of cookies DokuWiki uses?

A default installation of DokuWiki sets three cookies. But be aware that plugins can set their own 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 (if „Remember me“ was checked when logging in, otherwise: at the end of the browser session)

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

under construction (19.May 2018)

• Importance: necessary
• Typical content: yes
• Expires: in a year

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