what are different types of sessions in ASP.NET

Question

Here I want to know different types of Session in ASP.NET and not Session States. That was the question asked in an interview.

Answer 1

Session-State modes are 5 type:

InProc mode: which stores session state in memory on the Web server. This is the default.

StateServer mode: which stores session state in a separate process called the ASP.NET state service. This ensures that session state is preserved if the Web application is restarted and also makes session state available to multiple Web servers in a Web farm.

SQLServer mode stores session state in a SQL Server database. This ensures that session state is preserved if the Web application is restarted and also makes session state available to multiple Web servers in a Web farm.

Custom mode: which enables you to specify a custom storage provider.

Off mode: which disables session state.

Check the detail. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178586.aspx

Answer 2

Typical sessions are based on a cookie. The server gives you one, you send it to the server upon every request. However, Asp.net allows you a different type of sessions as well - cookieless sessions. The session id is then "stored" in the URL address. This technique is very dangerous if used improperly.