What does Cooki es mean?

Cookies, when used in programming, 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. When you browse a website, a very small text file placed on your hard disk by the network server can record your user ID, password, pages you visited, stay time 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 computers, the storage location of cookies is C:/Windows/Cookies, and in Windows NT/2000/XP computers, the storage location of cookies 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.