On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 03:47:36PM +0100, Bas Scheffers wrote: > Hi, > > At least the three other major platforms (Java, PHP and IIS) support > sessions out of the box. AOLserver does not.
> I even started my own, which you can get at: > http://bas.scheffers.net/aolserver/nssession-0.2.tgz > > Response hasn't been overwhelming, so I have to ask: do people actually > want this? Personaly, I think it belongs in the core. I even decided to Well, I've never seen a clear concise description of what "sessions support" means exactly. But presumably I have it already, whenever I use OpenACS. (I don't have it out of the box when using plain AOLserver, but then, I personally haven't needed it in those cases.) If someone wants to examine, refactor, and/or improve on the OpenACS session support and make it into an AOLserver module, that would be very cool. But since OpenACS users probably represent the single largest group of people using an existing AOLserver sessions implementation, I think it would be awfully silly to start with a "clean sheet" sessions design. (For bonus points, examine some of the other live-in-production-use AOLserver sessions modules and use their best ideas too.) It might be the case that whatever OpenACS is doing with sessions is dependent on its particular data model, I don't recall. But in general there is a LOT of utility code in OpenACS which does NOT actually depend on anything OpenACS-specific, and it would be very nice to have all that available for use by non-OpenACS projects as well. I suspect "sessions" is one such feature. Finally, from a marketing point of view, starting from scratch would also LOOK kind of silly to outsiders - "Oh, so in 2005 AOLserver finally adds sessions support?" Nah. AOLserver has had good sessions support since 1997 or whenever. It just wasn't rolled into the official AOLserver distribution, is all. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
