Chapter 20. Working with Sessions

In This Chapter

Addressing the Web’s Statelessness 497

Using Cookies to Remember Preferences 499

Using Client Variables 508

Using Session Variables 521

Working with onSessionStart and onSessionEnd 542

Locking Revisited 543

In Chapter 19, “Introducing the Web Application Framework,” you learned about application variables, which live in your ColdFusion server’s memory between page requests. You also learned that application variables are shared between all pages in your application. There are plenty of uses for application variables, but because they aren’t maintained separately for each user, they don’t go far in helping you create a personalized site experience.

This chapter continues the discussion of the Web ...

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