What are the differences between cookie, local storage and session storage

Below are some of the differences between cookie, local storage and session storage,

| Feature | Cookie | Local storage | Session storage |

| --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | ------------------- |

| Accessed on client or server side | Both server-side & client-side. The set-cookie HTTP response header is used by server inorder to send it to user. | client-side only | client-side only |

| Expiry | Manually configured using Expires option | Forever until deleted | until tab is closed |

| SSL support | Supported | Not supported | Not supported |

| Maximum data size | 4KB | 5 MB | 5MB |

| Accessible from | Any window | Any window | Same tab |

| Sent with requests | Yes | No | No |