> > > 1. the session object maps to a browser-window (*not* to a user!). Is > this correct? > > The session is associated with a particular browser, but not with a particular window/tab within the browser (i.e., two windows in the same browser will share the same session). Different browsers on the same machine or different machines will have different sessions, even with the same user.
> > 1. The request parameters are not being sent with every request: they > are just being configured by the user and expects them to be remembered by > the server, which must return the information as configured by the user. I > guess I can store these parameters in the session object. Correct? > > Yes. > > 1. But I need more: I need to instantiate a pool of processes which > are managed by third-party components. The objects in the pool map 1 to 1 > to the browser sessions. Is there a session id/key/hash that I could use > to > perform this mapping? Is there an example somewhere of how this session id > can be used? If there is not, I will need to create my own session id, but > I would prefer to avoid reinventing the wheel here. > > Perhaps you can add a unique key to the session, and then use that key to identify the associated pool object. Anthony
