Sessions V's Cookies

[D-ToX]

anyone know of any good resource material on this subject.

Am looking for documentation that compares the 2.

Cheers

D-ToX

[Kilo]

Sessions vs Cookies? Do you mean PHPs sesssions?

I use cookies to provide a unique id for the session which I store in the database, I think this is common practise... 😕

I thought PHP's own session handling was a bit poor, can't remember why now though... 😃

[superwormy]

Sessions and Cookies arn't really the same thing, doubtful if you'll find anything comparing apples to oranges :-)

Basically, sessions are little server-side files which store data, and these are related to a client and propagated by the client based on either a query string ( php.php?SessionID=2391u82351235 ) or a cookie ( cookie is set with that same SessionID = 2306u12312 ).

Cookies are Client-Side files that store data and each time the clietn visits a page, are sent back to the server as part of their HTTP GET or HTTP POST request.

[D-ToX]

Basically, i was going to discuss (for part of me exam) the sessions. The thing is i made a login to the page using sessions. I intended to discuss an alternative way of doing this. What shoud i "compare" or put it in comparison to?

Cheers

[superwormy]

No idea... did you use cookies or pass the session ID through the URL?

If you used cookies ( the default for sessions I believe ) you could discuss passing stuff through the URL instead of relying on client-side cookies.

[D-ToX]

hmm you got any links to papers or info on that stuff??

[D-ToX]

Hows about discussing the saving state? you think that would be a reasonable way to approach it? if its in a cookie or session file.. ?