Differences between Session and cookie, MCS-051, June-2008-4b

Session	Cookie
Data on server-side	data on client side
unlimited side of data as per as server capability	limited support for data data handling
It can store any type of data	only text
age of data is not fixed .	fixed
destroy after session timeout or logout	remains on client machine
less data traveling over the network	All cookie need to travel each time client sends request to server.
More secure mechanism to session tracking	less secure