Sessions
Whenever there's a need to store data that needs the scope of a (browser) session, the ordinary approach is to store data on the server-side, which can be accessed via a session-key that is stored on the client by some mechanism.
Three types of session lifetimes exist within a browser scenario. They are as follows:
- Temporary sessions: The cookie holding the session key has no explicit expiration timestamp set; hence, it lives only while a browser window is open.
- Permanent sessions: The session key is stored in a cookie, whose expiration timestamp is set in the far future (ServiceStack uses a lifetime of 20 years from creation as the default).
- Sliding sessions: The cookie that holds the session key is stored with an expiry in the near future. This expiration date is advanced by every following request; hence, it has the term sliding in its name.
To enable session support in your application, you need to register the session feature:
public override void Configure(Funq.Container container...
