On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 20:43:48 -0500, in php.general [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Michael B Allen) wrote:

>Why do sessions use cookies? Isn't a session just a container associated
>with the user's socket?

No. Even though mechanisms such as keepalive exists they are not
reliable for tracking a user. A client can still open multiple HTTP
connections to the same host even when using keepalive.

Furthermore we would like the session to survive the smallest hickups
(e.g. disconnects, TCP RSTs, ...).

-- 
- Peter Brodersen

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