What does the word "cookies" mean?

It originally meant cookies.

Internet browser Cookies, also known as Cookies

Cookies are cookies that allow the website server to store a small amount of data on the client's hard drive or memory, or to read data from the client's hard drive. a technology. Cookies are a very small text file placed on your hard drive by the web server when you browse a website. It can record information such as your user ID, password, web pages you have browsed, and the time you stayed on it. When you come to the website again, the website learns your relevant information by reading the cookies, and can take corresponding actions, such as displaying a slogan welcoming you on the page, or allowing you to log in directly without entering your ID or password. etc.

Essentially, it can be thought of as your ID card. But Cookies cannot execute as code, do not transmit viruses, are proprietary to you, and can only be read by the server that provided them. The saved information fragments are stored in the form of "name-value

pairs. A "name/value" pair is just a named piece of data. A website can only obtain the information it places on your computer. It cannot obtain information from other Cookies files or anything else on your computer.

Most of the content in Cookies has been encrypted, so the average user appears to be just some meaningless alphanumeric combinations, and only the server's CGI handler knows their true meaning.

Since Cookies are text files or data in memory that are transferred to the user's computer hard drive by the websites we browse, the location where they are stored on the hard drive is closely related to the operating system and browser used. In Windows

9X computers, the location where Cookies files are stored is C:\WindowsCookies. In Windows

NT/2000/XP computers, the location where Cookies files are stored is C:\Windows\Cookies. \Documents

and

Settings\Username\Cookies.