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Cookie based sessions

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Using start_session(); apparently creates clientside sessions by using cookies to store the data.

Is this correct?

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narmi2

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That is confusing because I always thought cookies had a limit of 4kb, I created a session (just for testing purposes) which had 1mb of data and it worked. Why is that?

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narmi2

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Ah ic, is it possible to create clientside only sessions using php?

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narmi2

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What I mean is, when I do <? phpinfo(); ?>, under the sessions section, it shows something called "session.use_only_cookies" off off. If those are set to on on, will that give me clientside sessions only with the 4k limit?

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Thanks, that answered my question.