Chapter 14. Session Handling
In Chapter 13, “User Authentication and Session Security,” we discussed authenticating user sessions. In addition to being able to determine that a sequence of requests are simply coming from the same user, you very often want to maintain state information for a user between requests. Some applications, such as shopping carts and games, require state in order to function at all, but these are just a subset of the expanse of applications that use state.
Handling state in an application can be a challenge, largely due to the mass of data it is possible to accumulate. If I have a shopping cart application, I need for users to be able to put objects into the cart and track the status of that cart throughout their entire ...
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