What is the Difference Between a Cookie and a Session Object in Java ?

Both Cookie and Session are used during communication between Client and Server. The Client can disable a Cookie. Due to which the Web server cannot send a cookie. But a client cannot disable a session. So a Session always works irrespective of any setting at the client side.

Also a Session can store any Java object. But the Cookie can only store small information in a String object.



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