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# Cookie
Cookies are an easy way to store stateful information into the user browser. Thus, it is more useful for browser-based navigation (e.g. a front-end app making API requests) rather than pure API interaction.
## Configuration
```py
from fastapi_users.authentication import CookieAuthentication
SECRET = "SECRET"
auth_backends = []
cookie_authentication = CookieAuthentication(secret=SECRET, lifetime_seconds=3600))
auth_backends.append(cookie_authentication)
```
As you can see, instantiation is quite simple. You just have to define a constant `SECRET` which is used to encode the token and the lifetime of the cookie (in seconds).
You can optionally define the `name` which will be used to generate its [`/login` route](../../usage/routes.md#post-loginname). **Defaults to `cookie`**.
```py
cookie_authentication = CookieAuthentication(
secret=SECRET,
lifetime_seconds=3600,
name="my-cookie",
)
```
You can also define the parameters for the generated cookie:
* `cookie_name` (`fastapiusersauth`): Name of the cookie.
* `cookie_path` (`/`): Cookie path.
* `cookie_domain` (`None`): Cookie domain.
* `cookie_secure` (`True`): Whether to only send the cookie to the server via SSL request.
* `cookie_httponly` (`True`): Whether to prevent access to the cookie via JavaScript.
!!! tip
The value of the cookie is actually a JWT. This authentication backend shares most of its logic with the [JWT](./jwt.md) one.
## Login
This method will return a response with a valid `set-cookie` header upon successful login:
!!! success "`200 OK`"
> Check documentation about [login route](../../usage/routes.md#post-loginname).
## Authentication
This method expects that you provide a valid cookie in the headers.
## Next steps
We will now configure the main **FastAPI Users** object that will expose the [API router](../router.md).