Cookieless Sessions
If you know you will be using a Web farm (described in the next section) or you do not want to take a chance on using cookies, you can configure ASP.NET to run without using cookies. You will still be able to use the Session object, but a memory cookie will not be generated. You can accomplish this by changing the Cookieless attribute in the SessionState setting in the Web.Config file associated with the project from False to True. Once you've set this option to True, the SessionID value is added to the URL as shown in the following example:
http://localhost/StateMgmt/(pe5t5r55ay2cqrfpu4tvgm45)/StateBagTest.aspx
The additional text (pe5t…) added to the URL contains the session ID value. IIS uses this number as the session ...
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