What is the lifetime for a session cookie?
<p>I say until you log out, session times out or you close the browser. But am I right?</p>

<p>I had an interview today and the interviewer wanted to know if I log into a page and closes the browser (without logging off), what happens to the session. </p>

<p>I said that the session will be orphaned. He says no - because their users are able to connect back to the session by just opening up the browser (using a cookie only). I told him that's a persistent cookie - not a session cookie. 
And I said that if that's the cause, there is nothing preventing the user from exporting the [persistent] cookie to a another computer and starting the session on that computer.</p>

<p>At first he said you can;t export a cookie but when I explained how, he said that he'll look but since many many people including 2 architects came up with the design, it is unlikely they are all wrong.</p>
