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In HTML5, is the localStorage object isolated per page/domain?
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I have tried looking around about HTML5 Local Storage but I can't seem to find a straight answer.
Does the Local Storage store its objects based on Domain like cookies?
If so how do I access it from another domain?
From the spec:
User agents must throw a SecurityError
exception whenever any of the members of a Storage
object originally returned by the localStorage
attribute are accessed by scripts whose effective script origin is not the same as the origin of the Document
of the Window
object on which the localStorage
attribute was accessed.
You cannot access data stored in localStorage
from any domain other than the one that stored it there. It follows the same model as the XMLHttpRequest
- the "same origin policy".
If so how do I access it from another domain?
You cannot.
LocalStorage data is created based on the domain of the web page. That data is then only accessible from web pages under the same domain.
Here is why this is a good idea:
Would you want a site like hackerz.pwn to be able to read/write/remove this?
Example (page on www.yourbank.com):
window.localStorage.setItem("user_session", "1234567");