> Interesting. I was working on a very large, complex application a couple
of
> months ago where client variables & WDDX got us in big trouble; seems like
> there's a limit on the total length allowed for all client variables
What I do is create my own client database and actually store a UUID and
then any client information there.
--Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 7:35 PM
Subject: RE: Fusebox Shopping Cart
> > IMO. I will never use session variables again for a shopping
> > cart. WDDX/Client Variables is the way.
>
>
> Interesting. I was working on a very large, complex application a couple
of
> months ago where client variables & WDDX got us in big trouble; seems like
> there's a limit on the total length allowed for all client variables
> associated with a single client. We were stuffing (sometimes rather
large)
> WDDX structures into client variables, ran into a problem, and were told
by
> Allaire that the total length allowable for client variable storage is 64
> thousand characters (premiere support, this was from the Sr. Engineer
> assigned to our account). This is apparently not related to the flavor of
> db that is backending the system; I'm not sure, but I think it may
possibly
> be related to the string parsing functions that handle getting your client
> variables in and out of that pound sign delimited list in CDATA.DATA.
They
> suggested we write our own routines for essentially duplicating what
client
> variables do, or switch to session variables and accept a loss of state in
> our cluster when there was a failover.
> I'd be most interested in hearing if anybody else has run into this issue;
> I've never heard of this happening to anyone else, and I know there's got
to
> be a few others out there that are putting WDDX into client storage.
>
>
>
>
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