Re: Session state without cookies

1999-11-02 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Trei B. wrote: [...] > Couldn't we do some regex on the environment variable HTTP_REFERER to grab > the session id from a request? That only works for one "click". (the next click won't have the id anymore, except maybe if you do a redirect every time - very ugly). If poss

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Uh, you still had to use one of the THREE METHODS I keep talking about: > > 1) cookies > 2) mangled URLs > 3) hidden fields And in some cases: 4) User authentication -- Details: FastNet Software Ltd - XML, Perl, Databases. Tagline: High Perfor

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-11-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Trei" == Trei B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Trei> Indeed there are no "sessions" with HTTP. I did not assume that Trei> there is some magical "session ID" environment variable that Trei> Apache provides the developer. Instead I was expressing a desire Trei> for that type of functionality s

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-11-01 Thread Trei B.
lem with a module - and they did (Apache::StripSession). It makes sense to handle this in the URI translation phase of the request loop. And I think that there are still ways to improve upon this concept. If we want mod_perl to provide us the best possible web development environment we need to cont

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-11-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Trei" == Trei B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Trei> On 30 Oct 1999, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> You have three main choices for maintaining a "session": >> >> 1) cookies >> 2) mangled URLs >> 3) hidden fields in forms >> >> If "static HTML" can't do #2 or #3, you are stuck with #1. >> >

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-10-31 Thread Trei B.
On 30 Oct 1999, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > You have three main choices for maintaining a "session": > > 1) cookies > 2) mangled URLs > 3) hidden fields in forms > > If "static HTML" can't do #2 or #3, you are stuck with #1. > > No amount of module help can work. :) I may be wrong, but it se

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-10-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Trei" == Trei B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Trei> I appreciate your suggestions. I may be missing something in the Trei> documentation for these modules, but they seem to rely on cookies. I need Trei> to maintain session state WITHOUT cookies. As I

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-10-30 Thread Trei B.
o you can utilize it in a > > CGI? If there isn't an existing module - does anyone have anything in > > development? > > CGI::Cookie > Apache::Cookie I appreciate your suggestions. I may be missing something in the documentation for these modules, but they seem to rely on co

Re: Session state without cookies

1999-10-30 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Trei Brundrett wrote: > I'm reworking an existing web store CGI script to better handle shopping > carts. I'm going to use Apache::Session to manage these shopper sessions. > The store is a mixture of static HTML and CGI generated pages and I want to > maintain the session ac

Session state without cookies

1999-10-29 Thread Trei Brundrett
I'm reworking an existing web store CGI script to better handle shopping carts. I'm going to use Apache::Session to manage these shopper sessions. The store is a mixture of static HTML and CGI generated pages and I want to maintain the session across the entire site. The only issue I've encounter