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session: a standalone construct

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session1 CONSTRUCTWeb sessionBARTH · HTTP STATE

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Computing and web analytics

a bounded sequence of client-server interactions held together as shared state, often through an identifier stored in a cookie.

A session is a bounded sequence of interactions between a client and a server, held together as shared state even though each request is otherwise independent. Because HTTP carries no memory from one request to the next, the server issues an identifier, often stored in a cookie, that the client returns on later requests so they are recognised as one continuing exchange. Barth's 2011 RFC 6265, the HTTP State Management Mechanism, specified how such cookies are set and returned to maintain this state. In web analytics the same word names a visit, a run of activity by one user that is closed once a set idle timeout elapses, and the referent is a tracked stretch of interaction in a computing system, not a therapy appointment, a sitting of a legislature, or an evening of music.[1]

Unit
A bounded run of client-server interaction, keyed by a session identifier
Recovery means
A fresh session begins with a new identifier once the prior one expires, is cleared, or is invalidated
Measured by
Counted in analytics as sessions or visits per user, with duration, page depth, and the idle timeout that bounds them

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assembly1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructbody2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

  1. Barth, A. (2011). HTTP State Management Mechanism (Request for Comments No. 6265). RFC Editor. https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6265

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