On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Joshua Paine <[email protected]>wrote:

> That would be nice, sure, but you don't need sessions for it. A simple
> cookie could handle it fine, and you wouldn't have to maintain state on
> the server. E.g., there's no reason not to provide that convenience to
> not-logged-in users or to anonymous logged-in users, too, except that if
> you used sessions for it you could potentially end up with a lot of
> temporary junk stored in your repo db to handle it.
>

True on all accounts (though the sessions could also be stored in an
external store, as opposed to in the repo). My problem at the moment is...
i've just created a CGI app framework in C, with sessions support (files,
sqlite3, mysql5), and now i'm desperately looking for a real use case for it
;).

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----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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