Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > It's a Catalyst plugin that stores your whole session in the cookie. It's > stored as a base64-encoded, Rijndael-enciphered, JSON-encoded string.
Krang does this as well and I've used it on lots of other projects too. But, I think that's a little overkill. I just use a URL encoded JSON cookie. I don't put anything sensitive in there. I usually use this in conjunction with a normal session cookie. So the sensitive stuff goes into the server side session and the non-sensitive stuff in the client side session. The nice thing about putting things into the cookie in an easy to read JSON format is that my client side AJAX/Javascript code can use it too. For instance, Krang has a user preference to determine how long you want the messages that slide-in to remain visible. With this stored in this JSON cookie we can access that from the Javascript, since that's what creates the slide-in messages in the first place. > This > seemed like a swell idea for me, since: > > a. I'm tired of session files cluttering things up. > b. I don't feel like creating a session db. > c. My session contents are tiny. The reason I use 2 session cookies (one just the key to the server side session and the other a JSON cookie) is mainly because of (c). Cookie size is limited and I can't guarantee that some people's sessions won't get really big. > I threw together a quick implementation last night, just for Rubric, and I've > already replaced my use of CAP::Session with it. I'll refactor it for use as > a > real plugin later this week, probably. > > > http://git.codesimply.com/?p=Rubric;a=blob;f=lib/Rubric/WebApp/Session.pm;h=3c5f79623f02268a0512487d62e976c7fc0b47aa;hb=HEAD I've been meaning to add something like this to CGI::Application::Plugin::JSON, but haven't gotten around to it yet. -- Michael Peters Plus Three, LP ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
