Name

ENABLESESSIONSTATE — <%@ ENABLESESSIONSTATE=True|False%>

Synopsis

Turns the storage of user-specific session information on (True) or off (False). This value is True by default.

Parameters

None

Example

<%@ ENABLESESSIONSTATE=False%>

' This code prevents the web server from storing
' user session information.

Notes

You also can enable session-state storage using the registry, but this directive allows significantly more flexibility (and on a script-by-script basis). If you have used a registry setting to control session-state information, then using this directive overrides that setting.

Setting this directive to False prevents you from storing any information in session-scoped variables or objects. This forces you to rely on other methods of maintaining information about each user, if you need to. However, it does provide some benefits:

  • It does not rely on your clients' browsers using cookies.

  • It increases the speed with which your server scripting is processed by the web server.

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