Re: [PHP] stupid (?) session question... From: Alexander Wagner (wagner <email protected>)
Date: 12/20/00

Christian Dechery wrote:
> while I was trying to do some session stuff I realized it's much
> simpler than in PHP... it doesn't have any session_start() or

Meaning it's less flexible. You never browsed with cookie-warnings on,
did you? Well, I always found it pretty annoying when some web-server
wanted to set me some ASPSESSIONID____-cookie, with no apparent reason.
Just someone who didn't know how to configure his IIS, obviously...

> anything... and the session doesn't need to be "propagated"... I can
> browse around pages that doesn't even mention sessions, I can even
> leave the site, and when I'm back, the session is still there...

I dunno, but can ASP do GET-Sessions instead of cookies? I would really
recommend using them. Cookies suck.

> how does this work? is this possible with PHP session handling, or
> ASP really does have this advantage (or, who knows, disadvantage)???

What ASP does is simple session-handling with cookies. PHP can do
better (cookies + get-fallback or get only).

I have to admit that I don't really know what ASP can do, I just know
that I got a lot of ASPSESSIONID____-cookies without even visiting a
ASP-Page.

regards
Wagner 

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