Cool. I still wonder how it knows.
Microsoft didn't seem to know about this at the time of the writing of some of the articles I read but all my work was with ASP not ASP.NET at the time.
Either way, there are very few browsers who don't support cookies anyway.
>>I haven't seen that but it is possible. It would need to be a custom implementation unless IIS has a feature somewhere I missed.
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>>How would the server know the browser doesn't support cookies? Unless it has a database of all the browsers it knows that doesn't support them.
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>>If you find more information on that I would love to know.
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>ASP.NET exposes Request.Browser.Cookies, which let's you know if the browser supports cookies. The book I am reading indicates that if the browser does not support cookies, ASP.NET automagically supports session state by passing the SessionID in the URL.
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