Buffering the Response Message

Active Server Pages enable you to maintain state in a Web application. State is the ability to retain user information in a Web application. Cookies can be used to maintain state on a user's computer. A Web application can maintain two types of state:

• Application state

  Information is available to all users of a Web application.

• Session state

  Information is available only to a user of a specific session.

You maintain state on a user's computer by using cookies. This lesson explains how to maintain state in a Web application.

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After this lesson, you will be able to

• Create and use cookies.
• Save session-specific information by using the Session object.
• Save application-specific information by using the Application object.
• Create events in Global.asa.

Estimated lesson time 40 minutes

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