What is ASP.NET Session?

A session is defined as the period of time a unique user interacts with a particular web application.

HTTP is a stateless protocol, in the sense that a Web server is concerned only with the current HTTP request for any given Web page. The server retains no knowledge of previous requests.

The stateless nature of HTTP requests presents unique challenges when writing Web applications.

ASP and ASP.NET applications maintain a user’s session using a feature called session state.

In this series we are going to talk in detail about how to troubleshoot ASP.NET session state related issues.

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