Re: Life without session variables

From: Bullschmidt (paul_at_bullschmidt.com-nospam)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:53:02 -0800

<<
I've always used session cookies in my web sites. However, since more
and
more people (including me) are starting to disable cookies, I'm
beginning to
think that I should change my ways and design websites without the use
of
session cookies. I've never done it before, but I understand that we can
get around the use of session cookies either by writing data to a
database
or by passing data from one page to the next with hidden fields. Can
anyone
point me to a tutorial on "best practices" for how this is done?
>>

I believe that session variables can still be used even if a user has
disabled cookies and that is by long querystrings which are
automatically created.

But if you want to look into not using session variables here are a
couple resources:

Why won't my session variables stick?
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2157

Maintaining Session State - 9/20/1998
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/092098-1.shtml

Pros and Cons of Session Variables - 9/20/1998
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/092098-2.shtml

Forcing the Session to Close - 10/24/1998
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/102498-3.shtml

Maintaining Persistent Information on the Web from the book Teach
Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days Sample Chapter! by Web
masters Scott Mitchell and James Atkinson
http://www.asp101.com/articles/sample_chapters/sams_asp3in21/page1.asp

Design Strategies for Scalable Active Server Applications by Steve Kirk
MSDN Content Development Group 8/1997
http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/techart/msdn
_aspscale.htm

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Developer
http://www.Bullschmidt.com
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