> without realizing that cookies used to be exactly that I believe the author does realize that: > at least, I'm guessing IE must implement cookies using sep

> without realizing that cookies used to be exactly that I believe the author does realize that: > at least, I'm guessing IE must implement cookies using separate small files, or must have done so at one point Netscape used to store cookies similar to curl in a single file, one cookie per line. IE was the only browser (AFAIK) that stored cookies in individual text files, and somehow that became canon. So I don't think it's correct in general to say "cookies used to be text files".