Store a picture in a cookie

Question

I would like to store a small profile picture of my users in their browser so that they can see their profile picture (in the login form) each time they log in (when they tick r

Answer 1

Why you don't want to store picture on server and store the path in cookie?

This looks more situable, then write additional data on user computer...

Answer 2

Could you store the path to the image in a cookie and use the value to render it in the login screen?

Answer 3

Store it in localStorage using JavaScript.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160313121817/https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/bobleah/entry/html5_code_example_store_images_using_localstorage57?lang=en

Answer 4

Surely it's more efficent to store a link to an online image in the cookie, and use that instead?

Each time a webpage is browsed, the cookies get transmitted - storing an image will add unecessary bandwidth.