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Christopher
Christopher

Reputation: 2057

Best way to cache 1.5MB of data at the client side

I have a flash application that uses a large set (~1.5MB) of data. This data is likely to stay the same for a long time so I would like to use a caching method. The data should stay cached even if the user closes his browser (and restarts his computer).

At the moment, I'm using javascript files that are dynamically created and contain the data that will be transfered to flash later on. The server checks the If Modified since argument and returns a Not Modified if possible.

This method has the drawback that I still have to wait for the request to finish - I would like to rely on the old data while everything is set up and check for a new version later on.

tldr: Is there a possibility to store data in a local cache (in the browser or my flash application) so that it isn't deleted when the browser is closed and is available without another request to the server?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1245

Answers (1)

TlmaK0
TlmaK0

Reputation: 3906

You can use web storage. I have stored more than 300 records for the same domain without problems in localStorage. Here is a good document about web storage http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html

I have never used it from flash but I found this at github https://github.com/shoito/as3webstorage

Upvotes: 2

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