RE: [Webware-discuss] Sharing session data

2004-03-11 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Warren Smith wrote: > It occurs to me that a file-based session store may present > these problems > even with only a single app server and local filesystem, > since multiple > threads in the same app server could just as easily interact > in the ways > described. I see from the source of SessionF

Re: [Webware-discuss] Sharing session data

2004-03-10 Thread Aaron Held
What if you use the sessionID as a key field in a database and store all of the session variables in a database. You could either modify session handler or if you have not witten any code just implement some sort of self.sessionSave() function that looks like session.value, but talkes to a db i

RE: [Webware-discuss] Sharing session data

2004-03-10 Thread Warren Smith
Geoffrey Talvola said: > Warren Smith wrote: >> The CGI app currently runs on more than a dozen web servers >> that share the >> same webspace via NFS. The web servers sit behind an "ip >> sprayer" (on the >> outside they appear as a single server). Changing this >> infrastructure is not an optio

RE: [Webware-discuss] Sharing session data

2004-03-10 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Warren Smith wrote: > I currently support a legacy web based application that is > implemented in Python CGI scripts with the session data stored > client-side > in hidden form > variables. Although the session form variables are protected from > manipulation by a checksum algorithm, this is stil