Which is better Cookies or Sessions

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Which is better practice to use session or cookies in your asp.net application.

Posted 27-Nov-12 5:03am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Nov-12 11:05am

Totally wrong question. If one thing was definitively better, the other might not even exist...
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Nov-12 11:24am

And please don't re-post; it cannot help you but can lead to down-voted and abuse reports, which you don't want. I'll remove your next question.

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ridoy · Answer 1 · 2012-11-27T07:05:00

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http://forums.devshed.com/asp-programming-51/session-or-cookie-which-is-better-79383.html[^]
http://php.about.com/od/learnphp/qt/session_cookie.htm[^]

Posted 27-Nov-12 7:05am

ridoy

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2012-11-27T05:09:00

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It's not a question of "better" or "worse" they are used for different purposes.

Session variables are stored at the server, and never leave the server computer. Cookies are stored at the client, and have to make a round trip each time the server wants them.

Which means that session variables expire when the session does (about ten minutes by default) whereas cookies can be maintained almost indefinitely on the client - which may be a good thing (if it's a shopping basket) or a bad thing (if it's a password).

Posted 27-Nov-12 5:09am

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Member 9423565 27-Nov-12 11:17am

Dear sir what you have replied i am abolutly agree on this but the same question is asked in interview from me thats why i want to clear my doubt on this.

OriginalGriff 27-Nov-12 11:24am

Just because it's asked in an interview does not mean the answer is one or the other - some questions are asked to find out how you think, rather than what you know. I would suspect this is one of those!

fjdiewornncalwe 27-Nov-12 11:28am

I would suggest that the interviewer wanted an answer such as given by Griff here. They are testing the level of knowledge and confidence you have on the subject. I have always asked at least one misleading question on a basic concept in interviews for the sole purpose of seeing whether the candidate can gracefully handle it.

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