When you have a single web server, storing the user sessions on the single server works perfect; however, when you have multiple web servers and users need to potentially round robin between servers or you need to remove servers from the pool and don’t want to affect your user’s experience enter: SQL Session State.
Tag: session
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Maintaining a session in a session-less environment
Confused? I know I was at first, but let me explain. First, why would there be a session-less environment? I thought this was a HUGE plus to server-side development languages over basic HTML that is session-less? Well, you would be right in that sense; however, as I mentioned in a recent blog that I’ve switched careers and I am currently doing server-side game development for large Facebook Virtual Worlds. The client/server relationship in these games are completely session-less. Each time the client performs an action, the server doesn’t “know” who they are because it’s not a consistent relationship like a browser and a web server.
Don’t worry, there is a simple solution to this problem, let’s explore it now. (more…)