A session is defined as a series of requests issued by the same client within a certain period of time, and is managed by associating a session ID with each unique client. This article takes an in-depth look at designing and deploying high-performance, scalable, secure session solutions, and presents best practices for both existing and new ASP.NET session state features straight from the ASP.NET feature team.ĪSP.NET session state lets you associate a server-side string or object dictionary containing state data with a particular HTTP client session. This feature provides a convenient programmatic interface for associating arbitrary application state with a user session, and takes care of back-end state storage and client session management for the application. Fortunately, ASP.NET provides a number of ways to maintain user state, the most powerful of which is session state.
This article uses the following technologies:ĭue to the stateless nature of the HTTP protocol, Web applications have always shouldered the burden of user state management. Securing your state management infrastructure.Addressing session state issues in Web farms.
Improving state management performance and scalability.Parts of this article are based on a prerelease version of ASP.NET 2.0. Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications
