Hello, It occurred to me yesterday that, despite having listed sessions as a feature of Webware in my Web Modules Overview page [1], I wasn't clear on how they could be created or manipulated in Webware, or on their advantages and disadvantages. This is mainly due to the fact that I haven't experimented with them at all. In the Java Servlet API, it seems like an interface is provided (javax.servlet.http.HttpSession) which is supposed to be implemented by a class providing generic session functionality through the use of cookies and/or URL rewriting (or whatever). I can't seem to find any mention of a similar thing in the documentation, although I do remember that there is a session example which comes with WebKit, but I think it only uses cookies. What is everyone's position on sessions? Are there any good ways of offering cookie-based/cookie-free sessions in Webware where the mechanism employed is done so "transparently" to the application? Should this be documented more clearly? Part of the reason I ask such questions is that in the XMLForms package, the framework attempts to push all active data in an application back to the client, and this would naturally include any session identifier. Indeed, the session identifier would be maintained invisibly to parts of an application not making use of it. I see one advantage of this system being the avoidance of any need to store session information on the server, and to be obliged to implement session timeouts - I hate visiting Web sites where my session expires after five minutes just because I had to respond to an e-mail. Of course, simple persistence to disk or database is something I wouldn't mind adding as well, but this is probably more interesting for applications which have registered users. Anyway, does anyone have any advice or experiences that they want to share on this subject? Regards, Paul [1] http://www.paul.boddie.net/Python/web_modules.html -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
