Session and Cookie

What is the different between session and cookies? Where is the session information stored? In RAM of the Client or Disk of the Client or it is stored on the server?

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maneesh.ce.2007
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Jan 17th, 2009

Session is stored on Server whereas cookie is on client side....

amount of data in session is not limited i.e can have size of data equal to RAM size whereas cookie can take limited amount of data....

Cookie can be manually dissabled by the client using browser whereas Session can't

sasikumarnp
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Jul 25th, 2009

Session maintains the client state on server side, Cookie maintains the client state on client side. Servlet sends the session id to the client through cookie.

Leeall
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Jul 27th, 2009

Cookie is stored at disk of client, session is stored at RAM of server

vinaymudgil007
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Aug 30th, 2009

well, the purpose of session and cookie is the same --- to maintain the state [in a typical web application, based on http protocol]

Session -- Its stored at server side [containers memory, RAM] and usually the amount of data stored is more when compared to a cookie. Besides this, no-one from client side can manually disable/manipulate session.

Cookie -- Its stored at the clients hard-disk and the user has the complete authority to enable/disable it, one can also open a cookie file and make manipulations [but then, im not sure how useful it could be for a person:) ]

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Vinay