apologies if this post is a duplicate (but it appears as if an unmentionable
mail-server has lost my post - yet again! :-)
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Richard Hayes wrote:
> Postgres is about 20 times larger than mSQL and since http is stateless
> how can you use the a full transaction database anyway. (My original
> question)
I think there are (at least?) 3 ways of managing state information:
* URL rewriting (small amount of state information is attached to the URL -
the advantage of this is that all browsers support it)
* Cookies (quite popular method - but requires cooperation from user -
ie. enabling cookie support in the browser)
* embedding a session identifier in a hidden html form field, and passing
the information back to the application server.
The application server matches up the session identifier and tracks
the state of the user's session.
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Cheers,
Jim.
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