ASP.NET MVC TempData in browser cookie

Question

I am trying to use a custom ITempDataProvider provider to store TempData in a browser\'s cookie instead of session state. However, everythi

Answer 1

There is a better solution by Brock Allen on GitHub that uses encryption, 2 forms of serialization, and compression to protect and optimize the cookies.

https://github.com/brockallen/CookieTempData

Here is a link to the blog about it:

http://brockallen.com/2012/06/11/cookie-based-tempdata-provider/

He also has a good technique using IControllerFactory to ensure every controller is supplied with an instance of ITempDataProvider.