Re: ASP Cookies vs. ASP Session variables

At 08:52 AM 08/11/00 +0000, you wrote:
>As far as I know, ASP sessions use cookies....

Yup they do.  To implement sessions, ASP stores a temporary cookie in the=20
browser containing the SessionID.  If the browser remains opened too long=20
without activity, the session may time out on the server before the cookie=
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expires on the browser but as soon as the browser closes the session ends.=
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It's much better IMO than storing a number of cookies on the client and=20
Session variables are much better performance wise too.  One could of=20
course store one UserID cookie on the client to recognize him/her between=20
sessions, or some kind of login system could be implemented but the bulk of=
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the data should be stored in a database on the server and state should be=20
kept using session variables (which use one temp cookie only).

HTH!

St=E9phane Bergeron

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