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Another important
capability of ASP is maintaining information specific to individual users.
In the previous step, you entered your name in a form, and Chili!Soft
ASP stored it in what's called a Session variable. This page uses the
Session variable to display your name above.
The HTTP protocol
is inherently stateless, that is, no information about the user who is
browsing the Web site is maintained from one Web page to another. For
many applications, however, knowing the state of a user's interaction
with an application is essential. Chili!Soft ASP overcomes this obstacle
by creating a Session object that holds all of a particular user's information.
Sessions are established
when a client connects to the Chili!Soft ASP application, and end when
explicitly abandoned or after a time-out period configurable in the application
has expired. The Session object can hold just about any type of information
that the programmer deems necessary, such as personal user information.
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