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wat is the difference between session and cookie ?

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Last Update: March 18, 2006 Asked by: Sukumar Reddy

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January 24, 2006 09:10:53

ajay

RE: wat is the difference between session and cookie ?...

1. Sessions are stored in the server side whereas cookies are stored in the client side

2. There is a limit to the number of cookies that cn be stored with respect to session

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February 16, 2006 23:34:03

harish_oty

Member Since: February 2006 Contribution: 2

RE: wat is the difference between session and cookie ?...

Cookies depends upon the client browser and might be deleted or blocked.

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March 17, 2006 07:52:36

padma

RE: wat is the difference between session and cookie ?...

both are using for to maintain the state of client.but in case of cokkies there is lot of transmission between cilent(browser) and server.so automatically perforence is reduced compare to sessions.there is limite on no of cookies.moreover some of the browsers may or not accept the cookies.in case of sessions we mange the state of client in 3 ways 1.sessions using url2.sessions with url 3.urlrewriting

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March 18, 2006 09:26:42

Shirshendu

RE: wat is the difference between session and cookie ?...

Session are used as server side means for session tracking whereas cookies are used as client side means of sesion tracking. There can be only 20 cookies per server. Size of each cookie is 4k.

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