Using cookies to store session in ASP MVC

Question

Storing the entire session in a cookie has been standard in Rails for the last few years - is there an easy way to achieve something similar with ASP MVC?

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Answer 1

You shouldn't use Sessions for this, but Profiles instead. Profiles use cookies to match computers to profiles, etc. The profile key is stored in a cookie, and isn't lost when closing browser etc.

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