Re: RAM based cookies

Well, Mark, you've pretty much ruled out all of the alternatives.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
but it takes a very long time,
and the bicycle has to *want* to change.

"Mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e0I4HwaAGHA.2560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We do not want to store our session data in SQL Server or a State Server
> due to performance implications, both valid session options aside from
> INPROC. Performance is a factor because of the need for ASP.NET/IIS to
> call SQL Server/StateServer to store/retrieve session information. Inproc
> won't work in a cluster because your session technically moves from one
> server to another within the cluster, and the INPROC session does not
> follow.
>
> Going back to my question - If ... we have disabled the use of session
> because we have clustered web servers and do not want to store session
> state elsewhere due to performance concerns, does that prohibit the use of
> these session cookies altogether?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Mark
>
> "Kevin Spencer" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uFEliSaAGHA.3928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Why would performance issues prohibit the use of Session Cookies? The
>> only thing stored in a Session Cookie is the Session ID. The Session
>> *data* is in memory on the web server.
>>
>> --
>> HTH,
>>
>> Kevin Spencer
>> Microsoft MVP
>> .Net Developer
>> You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
>> but it takes a very long time,
>> and the bicycle has to *want* to change.
>>
>> "Mark" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23BNNTxYAGHA.2536@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> I'm told that ram based cookies refer to session cookies (which the
>>> browser may still store on disk if it likes). These cookies that are
>>> destroyed when the bowser exits.
>>>
>>> If they are "session cookies", and we have disabled the use of session
>>> because we have clustered web servers and do not want to store session
>>> state elsewhere due to performance concerns, does that prohibit the use
>>> of these session cookies altogether? Or is the information still stored
>>> client side, allowing the use of the cookie on our clustered web
>>> servers?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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