1. What is the Temporary Internet Files folder?
Temporary Internet Files——Internet temporary folder, its function is to store temporary files when we surf the Internet. When we surf the Internet, in essence, the browser first downloads all the information contained in the page you want to browse from the server, such as text information, pictures, music, videos, Cookies and other file resources on the page we browse, the browser Calling these files is displayed in front of us. The files inside will occupy a certain amount of hard disk space, which can facilitate our offline browsing—for example, the pages we see when browsing offline are called from this folder. If there are no files in this folder, it means that all the files we got online are emptied and cannot be browsed offline. To browse again, we have to go online. For convenience, we will call it "TIF folder" in the introduction below.
For example, when we download a file, if we choose the "open" method, in fact, the file is downloaded to TIF first and then the system calls this file. We can find it here in a short time. You may have such an experience that after you download a file by "opening", you want to save the file. At this time, you only need to "thump" to complete the download. The inside story is that the system just copies the file stored inside to the new path you specify.
Under normal circumstances, the TIF folder is located in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files, which is read-only by default, and we cannot change the files inside (such as file names, file attributes) or add them by ourselves Other files go in, but can be deleted; the system is hidden by default, we have to set it to show hidden files to see it, but even if we set it as a non-hidden folder, after restarting the computer, the system will automatically save it. It reverts to hidden state.
2. Cookies are also called Cookies
Cookies is a technology that allows the web server to store a small amount of data in the client's hard disk or memory, or to read data from the client's hard disk. Cookies is a very small text file placed on your hard disk by the web server when you browse a website. It can record your user ID, password, web pages you have browsed, and the duration of your stay. When you come to the website again, the website reads the Cookies and gets your relevant information, so it can take corresponding actions, such as displaying a welcome slogan 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 be executed as code, will not transmit viruses, are proprietary to you, and can only be read by the server that provided them. The saved information pieces are stored in the form of "name/value" pairs (name-value pairs), and a "name/value" pair is just a piece of named data. A website can only get the information it puts on your computer, it cannot get information from other Cookies files, nor can it get anything else on your computer.
Most of the content in Cookies has been encrypted, so it seems to ordinary users that they are just some meaningless alphanumeric combinations, and only the CGI processing program of the server knows their true meanings.
Since cookies are text files or data stored in the hard disk of the user's computer that the website we browse transfers to the hard disk of the user's computer, its location on the hard disk is closely related to the operating system and browser used. In the Windows 9X system computer, the storage location of the Cookies file is C:WindowsCookies, in the Windows NT/2000/XP computer, the storage location of the Cookies file is C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Cookies.