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What do browsers do with expired cookies?

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Mar 15, 202653366 views
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What do browsers do with expired cookies? I know that the app won't read them in, and I'm assuming the browser wouldn't send them, but are they purged from the file system with any regularity?

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Taken from MSDN If a cookie has expired, the browser does not send that particular cookie to the server with the page request; instead, the expired cookie is deleted.

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