My point was that the contents is not sent to the client machine and 
therefore do not impact on the performance (in the matter of data that 
are sent back and forth between server/client).

But thanks for pointing out that you can use a custom session save 
handler (gr8 for a serverfarm if sessionid is stored in the querystring)

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Fr=E5n: Joel Wickard [mailto:jwickard@l...]
Skickat: den 14 november 2002 18:20
Till: professional php
=C4mne: [pro_php] Re: SV: Re: SV: Persistent connections and 
"stateless"and HTTP 1.1


Datatal AB - Gauffin, Jonas wrote:

>The data is always stored on the local machine it's never sent to the 
client machine. If cookies are used, only the sessionid is stored in it.
>
> 
>
Partly true, the session data doesn't have to be stored on the local
machine, you can define custom session handlers to store the data in a
RDBMS for example.  It's just stored in local temp files by default.