ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Caching Roles in a Browser Cookie

To improve your application’s performance, you can cache user roles in a browser cookie. That way, the Role Manager does not have to perform a query against the Role provider each and every time a user visits a page.

Caching roles in cookies is disabled by default. You can enable this feature with the web configuration file in Listing 27.33.

Listing 27.33. Web.Config

The web configuration in Listing 27.33 enables role caching. Furthermore, it causes the roles to be cached in a persistent cookie rather than a session cookie.

Warning

When you cache roles in a cookie, there is the potential that a user’s cached ...