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Cross browser session data with Javascript

By storing data in the window.name property, you can store data between page loads and across domains without ever sending a cookie to a server. Thomas Frank created the sessvars.js library which makes use of this browser quirk, allowing you to store up to 2 MB of client-side session data.

This is really powerful for a few reasons:

client-side, you can store way more data than allowed by traditional cookies
none of the data is transferred explicitly to the server, minimizing bandwidth used for each page request
allows you to talk between pages in different domains

Keep in mind that anything you store via this mechanism will be visible to any other site that a person visits, so this is best for storing non-sensitive data that you want to retain between page loads. This would be great for caching returned AJAX data that you would otherwise have to refetch and reprocess.

Session variables without cookies

Posted by Jason Striegel | May 12, 2008 07:26 PM
Ajax, Web | Permalink | Comments (0)