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Client-Side Storage
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Cookies
- Browser storage APIs
- IndexedDB
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Along with the emergence of web applications came a call for the ability to store user information directly on the client. The idea is logical: information pertaining to a specific user should live on that user's machine. Whether that is login information, preferences, or other data, web application providers found themselves searching for ways to store data on the client. The first solution to this problem came in the form of cookies, a creation of the old Netscape Communications Corporation and described in a specification titled Persistent Client State: HTTP Cookies (still available at http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
). Today, cookies are...