Client-Side Sessions
In several locations in the previous sections of this chapter, references to an object called a session have been made. The object in question is not a session stored on the server side, but is an object within the client. To learn more about server-side sessions, see Chapter 10.
It is vital to understand that this client-side session is not a replacement for the server-side session. The server-side session tracks the state of the application and generally has sensitive data stored within it. This client-side session tracks only the state of the client-side user interface and should never have any sensitive information stored within it.
This client-side session is used by the HistoryTracking library to maintain state. Specifically ...
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