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<h1>Sessions support</h1>
<p class="para">Memcached provides a custom session handler that can be used to store
user sessions in memcache. A completely separate memcached instance is used
for that internally, so you can use a different server pool if necessary. The
session keys are stored under the prefix
<em>memc.sess.key.</em>, so be aware of this if you use the
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<em><code class="parameter">session.save_handler</code></em>
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Set to <em>memcached</em> to enable sessions support.
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<em><code class="parameter">session.save_path</code></em>
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Defines a comma separated of <em>hostname:port</em> entries to
use for session server pool, for example
<em>"sess1:11211, sess2:11211"</em>.
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