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?

By default, an

Answer 1

depends on what kind of data you want to store in the cookie, if you want just to store string, the following code will do:

HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("username","sth");
            cookie.HttpOnly = true;
            cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddMonths(3);
            HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);