Does PhantomJS store any persistent files by default?

Question

As a new user to PhantomJS I want to be sure that I understand how PhantomJS handles any persistence of data that it accumulates from a HTTP request.

My question is:

Answer 1

Yes, there is one type that is saved by default and this is the localStorage database.

• On Windows 7: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Ofi Labs\PhantomJS
• On Windows 8: C:\Ofi Labs\PhantomJs
• On Linux: /home/<user>/.qws/share/data/Ofi Labs/PhantomJS

Everything else is saved only when you add the commandline options. The disk cache is inside of the above directory and the cookie file path has to be set explicitly.

So it means that if the web application that you test doesn't use localStorage then you can run PhantomJS in parallel.