Http Ses­sion

Http Ses­sion is a way to cre­ate s­tate in a HTTP5 con­ver­sa­tion be­tween a clien­t and a serv­er. The idea is that we send the clien­t a key, which they s­tore as a cook­ie, this key can then be used to lookup in­for­ma­tion about the user.

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