List various traditional session tracking techniques and explain the working details of a cookie.

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A. List various traditional session tracking techniques and explain the working details of a cookie.
B. If you were asked by your project manager to implement the following functionality to your website, how do
you approach to solve the problem? The functionality include:
(i) To include the number hits on your webpage
(ii) To Understand the person entered into your webpage is a first time visitor or not. Greet the visitor
accordingly.

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Step 2: Traditional Session Tracking Techniques

The following are the traditional session tracking techniques:

  1. Cookies
  2. URL Rewriting
  3. Hidden Form Field
  4. HttpSession Object
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