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How sessions work in Django?

The session framework stores and retrieves data. It stores the data on the server side and sends and receives the cookies. Cookies contain a session ID, not the data itself unless we are using the cookie-based sessions. Django provides support for anonymous sessions. Configuring the session engine: By default, Django stores sessions in our database. We can configure Django to store session data using these sessions engines: Database-backed sessions Cached sessions File-based sessions Cookie-based sessions Database-backed sessions: To use databased-backed sessions we need to add "django.contrib.sessions" to our INSTALLED_APPS setting. After this configuration, we need to run manage.py migrate to install the database table that stores session data. Cached sessions: For better performance, we can use a cached-based session backend. We should only use it if we are using Memcached cache backend. File-based sessions: To use file-based sess...