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Out of curiosity, why are cookies preferred to local storage ?
by braveyellowtoad 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why are cookies preferred to local storage ?
- andrewnicolalde 6y agoAny JavaScript on the same origin can read localstorage IIRC.
- maldini94 6y agoXSS attacks. Also note that the cookies should be http only and with the secure flag
- bpicolo 6y agoAs the others said - XSS. Stored XSS can still be a vulnerability with secure cookies, but locally stored tokens are a dramatically easier thing to take advantage of as an attacker, as they can just exfiltrate the token and hit your APIs with it. For web browsers, cookie-based auth solves a ton of browser-specific problems that history has spent a long time building up answers for.