Hour 15. Session Management
Online shopping malls, sites that want to remember users between visits, and sites with customizable interfaces can only work if you have a way to uniquely identify users and keep track of their activities. In other words, to build complex Web-based applications, you need to store data that persists between requests. This hour therefore discusses different methods for creating sessions, which enable you to store transaction data from one request to the next. This hour also discusses cookies, which store small amounts of data on the user’s computer for later use by the Web site.
This hour will
Define session management
Discuss the rationale behind using session management
Explain basic authentication
Cover the usage of ...
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