Originally Posted by
sbm12
Not really. At least not necessarily. The cookie does, in fact, only hold certain information on your local computer. It might reference a server-side data structure that should be loaded or it might just reference something local. But there is no guarantee that there is specific information stored on the server that is gleaned from the cookie itself.
True, but the point I was trying to make is that it doesn't store additional information on the hard drive like it said. That was the incorrect part.