martin nylin wrote:
hi
i'm using apache 2.2 mpm-worker and have noticed that incoming
requests are dispatched to apache processes in a way that makes it
hard for me to maintain sessions in my module. i'm using the user
field of the request_rec as session key
Huh? The request_rec has the lifetime of a request. Nothing on
it will preserve a session across requests.
and would therefore like all
incoming request from a certain user to always be dispatched to the
same process.
"from a certain user"?
If you have a notion of user, then you have a session already!
But you only know that mid-request.
i do realize that shared memory might be an alternative way to
implement sessions, but i think it would be very tricky in this case
since my session objects contains pointers to objects of unknown size
There are many ways to implement sessions: my book might help
as might many of those that teach you development with Perl,
PHP, Ruby, etc. The usual way is to give the client a token,
and you can match that to a serverside session token if it
needs to record more state info than is reasonable client-side.
--
Nick Kew
