Derrick Rapley

What is state? You may have heard the popular phrase, "The Web is a stateless environment." Simply put, data cannot persist across multiple page requests to the server. By nature, each request is independent of the others. When building Web applications, we often have a need for persistent data, data that is available across multiple page requests while being unique to each user. There are many uses for persistent data, from checking to see if a user's session has timed out, to storing information about a user for use later in the application. How Is State Created? For data to pe... (more)