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title: "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASP SESSION STATE AND ASP.NET SESSION STATE?"  
description: "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASP SESSION STATE AND ASP.NET SESSION STATE?"  
author: "Uttam Misra"  
published: 2013-02-05  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1685/what-is-the-difference-between-asp-session-state-and-asp-dot-net-session-state  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASP SESSION STATE AND ASP.NET SESSION STATE?

ASP session state relies on cookies, Serialize all requests from a client, does not survive process shutdown, Cannot maintained across machines in a Web form.

## Answers

### Answer by Uttam Misra

ASP session state relies on cookies, Serialize all requests from a client, does not survive process shutdown, Cannot maintained across machines in a Web form.


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