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Storing State in Sessions
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  1. What's the difference between a cookie and a session? A session lasts until the browser is closed, a cookie is persistent state stored in a small text file.
  2. What's serialization and how does it come into play with cookies? The cookies stores serialized data about the session.
  3. Can a cookie be shared by more than one user? How/why? Probably.
  4. What would it mean to store a shopping cart in a cookie? The shopping cart would persist from session to session.
  5. What advantages/disadvantages are there between cookie-stored carts and database-stored carts?
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