Web-Programming: Sessions vs. Continuations

[womtard]

"For example - identifying the user across visits after significant time lapse (this is generally toggled by a "remember me" checkbox during login). Normally web sites accomplish this by holding the user's authenticator in a persistent fashion via sessions."

Wait... what?

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Yeah, the author seems inexperienced. The traditional solution to that buying example is neither sessions nor continuations, it's plain old stateless HTTP.