VietMX Staff asked 4 years ago
All the above-mentioned technologies are key-value storage mechanisms on the client side. They are only able to store values as strings.
cookie |
localStorage |
sessionStorage |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Initiator | Client or server. Server can use Set-Cookie header |
Client | Client |
| Expiry | Manually set | Forever | On tab close |
| Persistent across browser sessions | Depends on whether expiration is set | Yes | No |
| Sent to server with every HTTP request | Cookies are automatically being sent via Cookie header |
No | No |
| Capacity (per domain) | 4kb | 5MB | 5MB |
| Accessibility | Any window | Any window | Same tab |
