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Storing State in Sessions
1. What's the difference between a cookie and a session?
A cookie is an object that is passed on with request and response so that the server can authenticate the user performing the request. I'm not 100% sure the difference but I think a session stores a secret encryption different from cookie's?
2. What's serialization and how does it come into play with cookies?
changing object into string for storage
3. Can a cookie be shared by more than one user? How/why?
No.
4. What would it mean to store a shopping cart in a cookie?
5. What advantages/disadvantages are there between cookie-stored carts and
cookie-stored can't be altered since it is encrypted? database stored carts maybe tinkered with?
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