What is a flash COOKIES file?

Cookies are a technology that allows the website server to store a small amount of data in the client's hard disk or memory, or read data from the client's hard disk. Cookies are very small text files that are put on your hard disk by the Web server when you browse a website. It can record your user ID, password, the pages you visited, the time you stayed and other information. When you come to the website again, the website can read Cookies and get your relevant information, so you can take corresponding actions, such as displaying a welcome slogan on the page, or allowing you to log in directly without entering an ID or password.

It can be regarded as your ID card in essence. But Cookies cannot be executed as code, nor can they spread viruses, and they are exclusive to you and can only be read by the server that provides them. The saved pieces of information are stored in the form of "name-value pair", which is just a named piece of data. A website can only get the information it puts on your computer, it can't get the information from other Cookies, and it can't get anything else on your computer.

Most of the contents in Cookies are encrypted, so the average user seems to be just meaningless alphanumeric combinations, and only the CGI processor of the server knows their true meaning.

Cookies are text files or data stored in the hard disk of the user's computer transmitted by the website we visit, so their storage location in the hard disk is closely related to the operating system and browser used. In Windows 9X system computers, the storage location of Cookies files is C:WindowsCookies, and in Windows NT/2000/XP computers, the storage location of Cookies files is C:Documents and Settings user name Cookies.

Cookie files in the hard disk can be read through a web browser, and the command format is: user name @ website [number ].txt. For example, the file name of a cookie in the author's computer is ch@ 163[ 1].txt. It should be noted that Cookies in the hard disk are text files, not programs.

Cookies settings

Select "Set/View Files" in the "General" tab of IE's "Tools/Internet Options" to view all Cookies saved in your computer. These files are usually named in the format of user@domain, where user is your local user name and domain is the domain name of the website you visit. If NetsCape browser is used, it is stored in "C:PROGRAMFILESNETS- CAPEUSERS". Unlike IE, NETSCAPE uses a Cookie file to record cookies of all websites.

We can set cookies appropriately: open the privacy tab in Tools/Internet Options (note that this setting only exists in IE6.0, and other versions of IE can adjust the security level of cookies by clicking the Custom Level button in the Security tab of Tools/Internet Options). It can usually be adjusted to the "medium high" or "high" position. Most forum sites need to use Cookie information. If you never go to these places, you can set the security level to "block all Cookies". If you only want to block Cookie from individual websites, you can click the Edit button to add the websites to be blocked to the list. In the Advanced button option, you can set first-party cookies and third-party cookies. The first-party Cookie is the Cookie of the website you are browsing, and the third-party Cookie is the Cookie sent to you by the website you are not browsing. Generally, you should choose "Reject" for third-party Cookie. If you need to save Cookie, you can use ie's "Import and Export" function to open "File/Import and Export" and follow the prompts.