Session Tracking
Topics
- Underlying mechanisms
- Why do we need Session Tracking feature of Servlet?
- Servlet Session Tracking Programming APIs
- Session timeout and invalidation
Underlying Mechanisms of Session Tracking
Why Session Tracking?
- Need a mechanism to maintain state across a series of requests from the same user (or originating from the same browser) over some period of time
- Example: Online shopping cart
- Yet, HTTP is stateless protocol
- Each time, a client talks to a web server, it opens a new connection
- Server does not automatically maintain “conversational state” of a user
Session Tracking Use Cases
- When clients at an on-line store add an item to their shopping cart, how does the server know what’s already in the cart?
- When clients decide to proceed to checkout, how can the server determine which previously created shopping cart is theirs?
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