Summary

To summarize, we will highlight some important facts about advanced storage space.

The concept of cookies was introduced for the first time on the Netscape web browser and was later migrated to Internet Explorer. It still remains relevant today. In order to have stateful communication, web browsers provide an area in their subdirectories where state information can be stored and accessed. The area and information stored in this area is called a cookie. The domain of cookies tells the browser the domain where the cookie should be sent. It allows a cookie to cross subdomains but does not allow it to cross domains. The path is the directory in the root of the domain where the cookie is active. Cookies are the universal mechanism that helps persist user-specific data in web browsers.

Web Storage represents a mechanism for better and a more secured way to persist data on the client than cookies. There are two Web Storage objects (Session and Local) that can be used to persisting user data...