Right. If I remember well (from 2 years ago ASP.NET1.0 (VS.NET2003))
forms even have a IsPostBack method to check for this.

And the LAN sniffer we used for tests showed "relatively high" traffic.

=> ASP.NET was trading server RAM against bandwidth.

Don't know about latest ASP.NET2.0...


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> David Stanek wrote:
>   
>> On 1/8/06, Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>     
>>> One of the interesting things (I've heard) about ASP.NET is that it
>>> never uses cookies.  Instead all requests are POST requests that
>>> resubmit the "cookie".  While this seems a bit overkill, it neatly
>>> solves a lot of issues wrt browsers and cookies.  I can't speak for Kid,
>>> but with Stan at least, implementing this is as easy as redefining the
>>> "a" tag to flatten to a form with an onClick attribute.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Interesting indeed. I'm gonna go check out that site later to see what they
>> are doing. Another approach would be to have Javascript catch clicks to
>> anchor tags and rewrite a GET request.
>>
>> That is definitely thought provoking.
>>     
> As far as I know, they use an "in page" session. That is
> serialized(pickle) the session info(as many as the developer like) and
> stores in every returned page(and post them back using tricks mentioned
> above). Using it right, it is quite nice but it can also bloat the
> page(I have seen tens of K).
>
> However, I don't know if that meets Jeff's requirement of refreshing
> and it never expire. For example, if I have 2 tabs each pointing to
> some page of my site app, frequently using one tab would make sure it
> never expires and puts no extra load on the system(no in memory
> session, no db update) but the other tab doesn't know about this and
> would expire that can give the user odd experience.
>
>
>   

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