hi all, hope you are well. Just a quick question, been googling this one for a while but not found anything yet:
How does IIS deal with session state?
Many thanks for your time.
majestic0110 187 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
binoj_daniel 14 Practically a Master Poster
What do you mean by Session State? The default session has a timeout of 20 mins. Now if you are referring to View State i can probably give you more details.
majestic0110 187 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
I think view state and session state are dealt with by IIS in the same manner, i.e. using a dictionary (I think - I am unsure).
hollystyles 113 Veteran Poster
ViewState is held in a hidden field within the rendered webpage, session state is held in the memory of the webserver. Each session has a unique id called a sessionid. The sessionid is given to the client browser on first request and quoted by the browser on each subsequent request from then on. It may well be the sessions are held in memory in some kind of dictionary object, it makes sense but I have no idea.
majestic0110 commented: Helpful information, many thanks! +1
majestic0110 187 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
ok thanks hollystyles that has helped clear things up a lot. Cheers!
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