|This article follows on from my earlier article about
Application variables, and how they allow you to store "global"
data for use by all your pages.| Session variables are very
similar. You can create them and store data in them in exactly
the same way: |// create a new Session variable to store the
users name Session ( 'Name' ) = 'James'; // display the name in
any page on your site Out ( 'Your name is ' + Session ( 'Name' )
); The crucial difference between Application and Session
variables is that Session variables are specific to each visitor
to your site. Background: The stateless webThe problem that
Session variables have to overcome is that the HTTP protocol
that you use to browse the web is stateless. Each request for a
page is completely independant of earlier requests, so if you
want subsequent pages to "remember" the users name that he
entered on your front page you have to store that information
somewhere. This remembering of user-specific data is called
"maintaining state". We'll see next how t