Re: ASP Cookies vs. ASP Session variables

by Lara Fabans <lara(at)flashcom.net>

Date:	Tue, 07 Nov 2000 21:18:56 -0800
To:	"Rasika Wijayaratne" <rasika(at)boursedata.com.au>, "HWG-Gen" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	Rasika2K
	todo: View Thread, Original

I'm going to go for a SWAG at the moment.
Wouldn't you want cookies for automatic logging in,
but session variables for personalizations/tracking/
shopping carts/etc.

So, I'd have a cookie that I'm KippyJ on www.hithere.com,
and it would automatically log me in. The ASP file would
detect the cookie, and do a session that would look me
up in the database, and every page would have
Welcome, KippyJ!
(if you're not KippyJ, click here)

And from what I understand in my reading & research, the
session variables are better performance-wise for the
main implementation stuff.

Lara
At 03:12 PM 11/8/2000 +1100, Rasika Wijayaratne wrote:
>I am just wondering what is the main difference in terms of
>implementation/use/performance when it comes to storing values in ASP
>cookies as
>oppossed to ASP session variables.  I mean since cookies take up much less
>server resources it seesm to make sense to use cookies for all seesion type
>tasks.  The only thing is that the code might be a couple of words longer,
>so its a bit of a hassle to write... annyone have any comments on this?

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