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Asked: 2026-05-25T17:46:53+00:00

I would like to import data that the user had entered into his profile

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I would like to import data that the user had entered into his profile on a website that I do not control. I don’t want the user to hand me his login credentials to grab the data from the server-side (connecting directly to aforementioned website). I would rather prefer the login data to stay on the client’s machine: It makes my service more trustworthy and I don’t have to process sensitive data.

I thought that this can probably done with javascript without greater hassle. However, given the security risks, it seems to be blocked by browsers. See How to get data with JavaScript from another server?

So I think my question is already answered and can be closed/deleted.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to do, but there is no secure way to verify login credentials in a browser client. If you want to check login credentials, you will have to involve a server.

    Some data can be stored on the client side, but then a user is tied to a particular browser on a particular computer and can’t use the service from anywhere else. In older browsers data is generally limited to what can be stored in a cookie and cookies are not guaranteed to survive for any particular long lasting time frame. In the latest browsers, data can be stored in HTML5 local storage which allows for a little more structured way of storing data, but even then you’re still stuck in one particular browser on one particular computer.

    Based on your comments, it sounds you’re trying to “cache” a copy of the data from web-site A that you can access from client-side code on web-site B on multiple visits to your website. If that’s the case, then it sounds like HTML5 local storage may work to serve as a cache storage mechanism. You will have to figure out how to get the data from web-site A into the cache as the cache will be subject to same-origin access (domain X can only access the data that was put into HTML5 local storage by domain X), but if you can get manage to get the data from web-site A into your web-site B client-side page (perhaps using JSONP), then you could cache it using HTML5 local storage. You will need to realize that even HTML5 local storage is not guaranteed forever (so you need to be able to fetch it again from web-site A if required).

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