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Understanding HTTP Session Management
Overview The HTTP protocol is a stateless protocol, which means that there's nothing in the protocol definition itself that relates a request to a particular client user. Web application developers use something called "HTTP Session Objects" to maintain information specific to each user. If servlets in WebSphere for z/OS environment make use of HTTP Session Objects, then it may need to provide what's called "session affinity", the ability to get HTTP requests back to the server in which that client's session object exists. This white paper gives some background on HTTP session objects, how the HTTP flow is related to a specific client ("session tracking"), and different ways the session objects are stored ("in memory" vs. "in DB2").
| Publisher | IBM | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | January 2003 | Downloads | 29 |
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