Best Example of Cookies

1. Login Cookie: A login cookie is a good example of a cookie. A cookie is stored on your machine by a website when you log in, authenticating you as the logged-in user. This cookie allows you to access the website without having to log in every time.
2. Tracking Cookie: Another example of a cookie is one that is used to track your browsing activity on a website. Websites use cookies to collect information about user behaviour on their sites. Using this information, the functionality and presentation of the website can be improved.
3. Advertisement Targeting Cookie: Cookies can also be used to target advertisements to users. A cookie may be placed on your machine, for example, if you visit an e-commerce website and view a product. Through this cookie the website will be informed that you are interested in that product. The website may use cookies to show you product advertisements the next time you visit a website that displays advertisements.

Postman is a popular tool for API testing and development. It has several features that make it ideal for handling cookies that make making and executing API calls easier, including:

1. Cookie Manager: Cookies Manager Allows viewing, adding, editing, and deleting cookies for a specific domain using the Cookies Manager. This may be beneficial for storing cookies between requests or for testing authentication-requiring APIs.
2. Cookie Interceptors: Cookie interceptors allow you to automatically capture and manage cookies from API responses.
3. Cookie Jars: Cookie jars allow you to store and reuse cookies in your API requests.

This article focuses on discussing Cookie Manager in Postman.