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A Session object stores information about, or change settings for a user session
When you are working with an application on your computer, you open it, do some changes and then you close it. This is much like a Session. The computer knows who you are. It knows when you open the application and when you close it. However, on the internet there is one problem: the web server does not know who you are and what you do, because the HTTP address doesn't maintain state.
ASP solves this problem by creating a unique cookie for each user. The cookie is sent to the user's computer and it contains information that identifies the user. This interface is called the Session object.
The Session object stores information about, or change settings for a user session.
Variables stored in a Session object hold information about one single user, and are available to all pages in one application. Common information stored in session variables are name, id, and preferences. The server creates a new Session object for each new user, and destroys the Session object when the session expires.
A session starts when:
A session ends if a user has not requested or refreshed a page in the application for a specified period. By default, this is 20 minutes.
If you want to set a timeout interval that is shorter or longer than the default, use the Timeout property.
The example below sets a timeout interval of 5 minutes:
Use the Abandon method to end a session immediately:
Tip: Only store SMALL amounts of data in session variables!
The most important thing about the Session object is that you can store variables in it.
The example below will set the Session variable username to "Donald Duck" and the Session variable age to "50":
When the value is stored in a session variable it can be reached from ANY page in the ASP application:
The line above returns: "Welcome Donald Duck".
You can also store user preferences in the Session object, and then access that preference to choose what page to return to the user.
The example below specifies a text-only version of the page if the user has a low screen resolution:
The Contents collection contains all session variables.
It is possible to remove a session variable with the Remove method.
The example below removes the session variable "sale" if the value of the session variable "age" is lower than 18:
To remove all variables in a session, use the RemoveAll method:
The Contents collection contains all session variables. You can loop through the Contents collection, to see what's stored in it:
Result:
If you do not know the number of items in the Contents collection, you can use the Count property:
Result:
You can loop through the StaticObjects collection, to see the values of all objects stored in the Session object: