## Package org.apache.http.cookie

The API for client-side state management via cookies.

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Description

Interface Summary
ClientCookie: ClientCookie extends the standard `Cookie` interface with additional client specific functionality such ability to retrieve original cookie attributes exactly as they were specified by the origin server.
Cookie: Cookie interface represents a token or short packet of state information (also referred to as "magic-cookie") that the HTTP agent and the target server can exchange to maintain a session.
CookieAttributeHandler: This interface represents a cookie attribute handler responsible for parsing, validating, and matching a specific cookie attribute, such as path, domain, port, etc.
CookieSpec: Defines the cookie management specification.
CookieSpecFactory: Factory for `CookieSpec` implementations.
SetCookie: This interface represents a `Set-Cookie` response header sent by the origin server to the HTTP agent in order to maintain a conversational state.
SetCookie2: This interface represents a `Set-Cookie2` response header sent by the origin server to the HTTP agent in order to maintain a conversational state.
SM: Constants and static helpers related to the HTTP state management.

Class Summary
CookieIdentityComparator: This cookie comparator can be used to compare identity of cookies.
CookieOrigin: CookieOrigin class encapsulates details of an origin server that are relevant when parsing, validating or matching HTTP cookies.
CookiePathComparator: This cookie comparator ensures that multiple cookies satisfying a common criteria are ordered in the `Cookie` header such that those with more specific Path attributes precede those with less specific.
CookieSpecRegistry: Cookie specification registry that can be used to obtain the corresponding cookie specification implementation for a given type of type or version of cookie.

Exception Summary
CookieRestrictionViolationException: Signals that a cookie violates a restriction imposed by the cookie specification.
MalformedCookieException: Signals that a cookie is in some way invalid or illegal in a given context

## Package org.apache.http.cookie Description

The API for client-side state management via cookies.

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