[Javascript] OT: Server-side Scripting / Maintaining state

[Chris T]

Whoops, scratch what I said. You mentioned it in your email and it said it
further down that a cookieless session is possible by it modifying the query
string.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Brunone" <peter at brunone.com>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] OT: Server-side Scripting / Maintaining state


>
>    ViewState *is* used an awful lot -- a practice which I try to avoid
when possible -- but it is not the mechanism used for Session in ASP.NET
(good thing, too, since it can become corrupted on occasion).
>
>    You still have cookies for most implementations, but when you go
cookieless, all relative links are modified with a sessionID (similar to the
effect of the Cookie Munger in the old NT Resource Kit, but this a breeze to
implement).
>
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspnet/html/asp12282000.asp
(watch for wrapping) gives a brief but comprehensive overview of ASP.NET
session (this was written for the beta version, but aside from some possible
syntactical differences, the processes are still the same).
>
> Original Message:
> >From: "Chris T" <christ at saeweb.com>
> >
> >> Since we're continuing off course...
> >>
> >>    ASP.NET actually has a solution to the webfarm/session problem (and
> >they've made session use a lot less clumsy in terms of memory), and
there's
> >built-in support for cookie-less sessions as well.  You can even tell the
> >process to use SQL Server to store session info...
> >
> >I was aware of that, but didn't want to bring it up because I'm still a
> >little confused on how it handles sessions.
> >
> >.Net really uses a lot of forms to pass info along - the ViewState. I
think
> >that's how it maintains much of its sessions across multiple servers, but
> >I'm not sure so I didn't want to go in-depth.  Does anyone know for sure?
>
>
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