Yes, you would want to lock it with readonly ... but I would recommend setting your session variables to local variables at the top of the page so you only have to lock them once.
<cflock timeout="20" throwontimeout="No" type="READONLY" scope="SESSION"> <cfset variables.username = "#session.username#"> </cflock> THEN <cfif variables.username Is "blah"> add some code </cfif> Paul Giesenhagen QuillDesign http://www.quilldesign.com SiteDirector v2.0 - Commerce Builder > Ok, this leads me to another question about locking, If I'm doing a check > for a session variable, like say something like > <cfif session.username is "blah"> > add some code > </cfif> > > should I have read only locks on pieces of code like that? we do have > certain features that we look for a particular user via a session variable. > I'm wondering if I should lock all those too, or would that be overkill? > > Ben > > > > > At 11:52 AM 4/23/2002, you wrote: > >Hey Ben, try running your server in single-threaded mode ... not to > >spark up the common session locking thread again, but Ben Forta states > >that it _may_ be a wash (in terms of processing time) when you compare a > >server running single-threaded vs. var & query locking, etc.... and as > >Dave Watts recently posted... and I paraphrase... 'everything has a > >price'. Anyhow, being the newbie that I am, I have been running a > >similar sales tool w/ about 100 users and I have yet to turn off single > >threading. But, the general consensus is LOCK EVERYTHING ALWAYS. Of > >course, you say "all vars are locked"... Final thought, when I was > >learning/testing cfid/cftoken I built some test fields into my login > >page to echo the id/tokens and rounded up some testers and banged away. > >It didn't break so I didn't fix it! :) > > > >Good luck, > > > >Mike > > > >Ben Densmore wrote: > > > > >There is no Proxy server, at the moment the IP addresses are static. I > > >thought maybe the machines were using the same IP Address, but they are not. > > > > > >Ben > > > > > > > > >At 11:14 AM 4/23/2002, you wrote: > > > > > >>are they running behind a proxy sever? it's entirely possible that they > > >>appear to be coming from the same IP address, confusing the server. > > >> > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
