On 9/10/06, Frans Bouma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An old trick was that you have a common start page, and from there,
redirect with javascript to a different page. There, you
set a flag and redirect back to the main page, which now doesn't contain the
javascript redirect code because of the flag (in the
session).
Session? Um, Server-side (Session) variables are pretty expensive in ASP.
The higher you want to scale ASP, the less you use Session() variables.
Granted, it's not like when you'd be brought in to figure out why a
client's site won't handle more than a couple of dozen concurrent
users, despite a server loaded to the gills with the right hardware.
You'd sit down with a local copy of the code, grep for "Set Session"
or "Set Application" and realize you've been more time smiling &
shaking hands than finding out people had been writing VBScript which
looked like QBASIC. And after the second time you'd dealt with it
you'd figured out how to the first couple of times you'd and trying to
find a polite way of telling the suits their staff they'd just wasted
six months of development time and everything associated with it. (and
it was preventable)
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