Actually the piece stored by the client is only the Session Key, not all the
Session Data.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: Xizhen Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: where is servlet session info stored?
> so, you mean both client and server need to store session data? so if I
> want to store a large amount of data in session, will it make the
> response very slow? (because I think the server needs to send the
> session information to the client). but i feel it is quicker than
> querying the database.
>
> thanks!
>
> Robert Sartin wrote:
> >
> > Yes, part of it is in each place.
> >
> > On the client side, the session is stored as a cookie or encoded in
> > URLs. If the client has cookies enabled, they carry a cookie
> > identifying the sessions (and your servlet can add more cookies if you
> > want). If the client does not accept cookies, the servlet engine (and
> > your use of encodeURL) will encode the session ID in the URLs.
> >
> > On the server side, there is a session object to which you can attach
> > session data for your servlet(s). Requests are affiliated with a
> > session; use HttpServeltRequest.getSession() to get, or create, the
> > session. Sessions can carry "values" (any Object); use
> > HttpSession.getValue() to retrieve values and HttpSession.putValue() to
> > store them.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > --- Xizhen Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi! I am wondering where the session info is stored? In client
> > > machine
> > > or in web server machine?
> > >
> > > I am developing a website with servlet. The user can search a
> > > database
> > > using the website. A search can result in a large number of records
> > > so
> > > that i cannot display them in one page. so i need give user the
> > > next/previous button to let the user go through the pages that
> > > display
> > > the records. so I think i can store all the records (or the ResultSet
> > > handle?) in session, so it is much faster than retrieving the records
> > > from database again.
> >
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