On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:05 -0400, Nathan Folkman wrote: The idea of a dedicated session server solves all the problems of multiple servers, multiple instances and load balancing.
> How is a session defined? Does it exist for the life of a browser > session, or is it more permanent, surviving browser restarts? Lots > of interesting ways you could go with this. :-) A session is reduced to: Allocate me a chuck of virtual space. Assign that chuck of virtual space to a single identifier. Allow anyone to read/write to it via it's identifier. Preserve it by any means possible until specifically told to destroy it or after a specified period of inactivity. The common theme I am seeing of storing/retrieving data in that chuck of virtual space is using key/value pairs similar to ns_set and nsv_. The way the session identifier is assigned to a user will vary based on needs. Some will want to save it in persistent cookies, some in session cookies, some by IP address and some in query strings. That is not the job of the session manager and needs no consideration in its design. Daniel -- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | Daniel P. Stasinski | http://www.disabilities-r-us.com/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.scriptkitties.com/ | --------------------------- | --------------------------------- | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Google Talk: mooooooo -- 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.
