On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Ronald Lane <rlane6013@verizon.net> wrote: >> We would like to develop a system (javascript) to run on a local browser. We >> would like to make use of local storage however in testing this out we see >> that when running the app from a server local storage works fine but when >> running the app locally it fails to retain the data between sessions. >> >> Is this an intended function? > > This is really a problem with the file: protocol rather than a problem > with localStorage. localStorage works on the basis of origin, a > concept which is defined for protocols like http: and https:, however > I believe so far has not been defined for file:. I'd recommend talking > with the IETF, though I wouldn't get my hopes up as it's really a very > hard problem to solve unfortunately. Yeah, we've basically punted on the origin of file URLs in IETF-land. AdamReceived on Monday, 29 November 2010 21:56:57 UTC
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