Re: Overwhelming a Web Application Server

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bradley V. Stone skrev:
>    Sort of lost me here.  Cookies shouldn't put any memory or stress on the
>    server.  Cookies are stored on the client side.  And as far as how to
>    "recognize" the cookie from the client, that's usually stored in a db (ie
>    a shopping cart file, etc), not in memory.  If so, I would call it a
>    design flaw.
>
>    The requests are still stateless.
>
>    Brad
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Your message lost formatting.  I believe the above is what you wrote.

The cookie acts as a session _ID_.  The actual session data structure 
identified by the session id is located inside the webserver and looked 
up when processing the request.

At least in the frameworks I am familiar with :D