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title="NEW - Web Automation: don't disable localStorage for ephemeral sessions that are being controlled by automation"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164469#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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title="NEW - Web Automation: don't disable localStorage for ephemeral sessions that are being controlled by automation"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164469">bug 164469</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:beidson@apple.com" title="Brady Eidson <beidson@apple.com>"> <span class="fn">Brady Eidson</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=164469#c3">comment #3</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=164469#c2">comment #2</a>)
> > Ephemeral sessions should *not* use the storage backend that actually stores
> > to disk.
> >
> > So this bug is, by necessity, more than just "don't disable localStorage for
> > ..."
> >
> > We'll need a mode for localStorage to use an in-memory backing store.
>
> Does such a backing store already exist?</span >
Yes - sessionStorage uses a per-WebView, in-memory backing store.
And that's exactly what we'll want to use for localStorage in a WebView whose storage session is ephemeral.</pre>
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