Juha Suni schreef: > David Duymelinck wrote: > >> Putting post data in a session isn't a good choice because cookies and >> sessioncookies have a limited file size. >> > > Ermm... the session data is not stored in the cookie (thank god). Therefore > filesize for regular POST-requests should not be a problem. > > Storing huge amounts of data in the session file is totally possible, > although mostly not recommended. You might get a big performance hit. > Termporarily storing a few kB's of POST data is not a problem at all, > however. > > I've seen programming leakage that resulted in session files of several > megabytes, causing some minor slowdowns, but still functioning 100%. > > Sessions are incredibly handy and powerful, if used correctly. I'm not > recommending dumping all your data there, but you shouldn't avoid storing > some stuff for the duration of the session. That's what they were built for. > > And as suggested earlier, it's better to keep your auth data in the session. > Permanent cookie is ok for picking a theme though. > > Ok i didn't know that. thank you for correcting me.
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