What is a cookie on a web page?

A cookie is just a very short piece of information that can be automatically placed on a computer's hard drive. Through cookies, it is possible to recognise whether you are visiting it for the first time, or if you are visiting it again. Cookies can also be used to understand what content you are interested in and to collect information about the user, such as zip code, type of computer chip, and other information.

When you browse something, the program will unknowingly store a small cookie (as a text file) on your hard drive. If you want to know what kind of cookies you have on your computer, look for the cookies folder in the windows directory. If you are using Internet Explorer, you can find the cookie file at the following path:

c:windowscookies。

Remove cookies

If you do not want cookies to be stored on your computer, you can change the settings on your browser. Here's how to do it (take IE as an example):

Start IE, find "Tools Internet Options Security Custom Level", and you'll be able to see the different options for how to handle cookies. This method is suitable for IE versions and above.

Advanced management of cookies.

Since we mentioned earlier that we rely on cookies to identify our whereabouts, can we hide ourselves through cookie settings?

Of course! For some large ** (such as Sina, CCID, etc.), we can fully trust them and use cookies with confidence, which will bring us a lot of convenience. And the cookies used in some ** are more dangerous, so we have to treat them separately.

In order to prevent the occurrence of harm, there is a setting on whether or not to accept cookies in the browser software, but it is difficult to operate in practice. It is not very reassuring to accept them all, and banning them will cause us inconvenience in browsing, and even some sites will not be accessible at all. Set it to a prompt before acceptance, and the prompt window that keeps popping up is very annoying.

What does browser cookie mean?

Save some of your browser data for the next quick access.

The use of cookies is very common. Many personalization services** use cookies to identify users in order to provide user-tailored content. For example, free email sites with web interfaces use cookies.

The information recorded in cookies is limited, so cookies are secure.

Benefits of cookies:

1. Control the size of the session object stored in the cookie through good programming.

2. Reduce the possibility of cookies being cracked through encryption and secure transmission technology (SSL).

3. Only store insensitive data in cookies, even if it is stolen, there will be no big loss.

4. Control the life cycle of cookies so that they do not expire forever. The thief will most likely get an expired cookie.

A cookie is a plain text file that is saved on the client side. For example, txt files. The so-called client is our own local computer.

When we use our own computer to access a web page through a browser, the server generates a certificate that is returned to my browser and written to our local computer. This certificate is the cookie. In general, cookies are plain text files that are written from the server side to the client.

What does browser cookie mean?