How to work with sessions & cookies

How to work with sessions & cookies

1. Session Tracking

   • Keep track of users as they move around a website
   • Servlet API is used to track sessions

2. Why session tracking is difficult with HTTP

   • HTTP is known as a stateless protocol
     • if a browser on a client requests a page from a web server and the page is returned, any additional request is not associated with the previous requests
       • This happens because HTTP does not maintain its state. It is a stateless protocol

3. How session tracking works in Java

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