Question

Once again the confusion related to MSDN documentation with respect to Session Management.

I went thru the Session Management Article in MSDN, and found that it is stated in the article that – “we can Store session-specific data on the server for use across multiple browser or client-device requests within the same session.“

Can anybody tell me how is it possible. for e.g. if you have two browsers i.e. i)Firefox and ii) Internet Explorer (IE).

Now, If I am running asp.net application (which uses stateserver to manage sessions) in Firefox. And again the same application I ran through IE (without closing firefox session). Is that means that both the browser will share the same session? I guess “NO”. Both the browsers will run with their own sessions, which is different from each other.

Secondly, I found that the two statements in the article are contradictory with each other. It says that – “Session state is similar to application state, except that it is scoped to the current browser session” and on other hand it says that – “It Store session-specific data on the server for use across multiple browser or client-device requests within the same session“

So, if its scope is limited to the current browser session, then how it can be use across multiple browsers?

Answer 1

It is a little confusing, but I think you’re misinterpreting the statement. They are referring to multiple requests, not browsers or client-devices.

Session is indeed scoped to the current browser session, persisted with cookies or query strings.