1.1 Glossary

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This document uses the following terms:

application domain: A virtual process space within which managed code applications are hosted and executed. It is possible to have multiple managed code applications running inside a single process. Each managed code application runs within its own application domain and is isolated from other applications that are running in separate application domains. An application domain has a unique identifier used as part of the identifying key on a state server when storing and retrieving session data.

ASP.NET: A web server technology for dynamically rendering HTML pages using a combination of HTML, Javascript, CSS, and server-side logic. For more information, see [ASPNET].

ASP.NET state server: A Windows service that provides a default server implementation of the ASP.NET State Server Protocol. When the service is enabled on a computer, that computer can act as a state server. The state server accepts requests to load, store, delete, and temporarily lock Session state items.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP): An application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web.

session state: In ASP.NET, a variable store on a server for storing and retrieving values for a user while the user navigates ASP.NET pages in a web application. Session state is typically used to store user-specific information between postbacks. Each user maintains a separate session state on the server.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL): A string of characters in a standardized format that identifies a document or resource on the World Wide Web. The format is as specified in [RFC1738].

user session identifier: A unique identifier used as part of the identifying key when storing and retrieving session data.

web application identifier: Each ASP.NET application running on a web server is uniquely identified with a web application identifier. The web application identifier is the virtual path of the web application on the web server. A web application identifier is used as part of the identifying key on a state server when storing and retrieving session data for a specific browser session.

MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.