title: best alternative to cookie,when size limitation kicks in
body: <p>I have been working with a fairly huge database. I want to populate the webcontrols(dropdownlists) of the page during pageload event to give the webpage as much flexibility as possible. For example, I have a dropdownlist ,that user can select, which will be populated from the unique rows of a specific column of a datatable.</p>
  
  <p>Now, i don't want to fire the oracle query each time page load happens because that will slow down the webpage significantly (about 1mins each time). So i started to think of cookies as solution. I soon found out that limitation of cookie size (4kb) is way too small for my purpose. I will need around 10-15kb of size if i really want to store the datarows locally! So I tried to search if there were any way to increase the cookie size limitation to accommodate my needs and I found the possible solution is localstorage.</p>
  
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  <li>Is there really a way to increase the cookie size limitation?  </li>
  <li>What is the simplest alternative? is it really localstorage? or are there anything else to look into? </li>
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  <p>details: I am using C#/ASP.NET + ORACLE</p>