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Session Tracking is a way to maintain state (data) of an user. It is also known as session
management in servlet.
Http protocol is a stateless so we need to maintain state using session tracking techniques.
Each time user requests to the server, server treats the request as the new request. So we need
to maintain the state of an user to recognize to particular user.
HTTP is stateless that means each request is considered as the new request. It is shown in the
figure given below:
1. Cookies
2. Hidden Form Field
3. URL Rewriting
4. HttpSession
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