With most web frameworks (e.g. Django), the user model is retrieved on every request anyway. So it would be perhaps more accurate to say that it's a server-side session that's effectively not a server-side session, since no additional lookups are needed, only the user model lookup that's already done anyway.
With most web frameworks (e.g. Django), the user model is retrieved on every request anyway. So it would be perhaps more accurate to say that it's a server-side session that's effectively not a server-side session, since no additional lookups are needed, only the user model lookup that's already done anyway.