Sessions and Users, was: Re: [Pangloss] [RFC] OpenFrame AppKit ideas

[Steve Purkis]

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 11:12  am, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:

>>> I was assuming all users (including googlebot) would have a
>>> session.
>>
>> If all users have sessions and some users don't support cookies then
>> doesn't that rule out cookies for sessions?
>
> I assume that steve would be issuing a new session for each request,
> which I think would be fine for GoogleBot.
>
> Steve you're going to have a hard time here. For some reason which I am
> not aware of Chris is pathologically allergic to cookies and he'll bash
> and bite until you find a way to do without...
>
> As for URL-encoded session ids, don't even think about it :-)

Grand ;-)


> Playing the evil devil's advocate, Chris has an interesting exercise:
>
> 1/ What do you need sessions for?
> 2/ Give a concrete example.

Right - I see where this is going...  Yes you can make do without 
sessions, indeed, like any other tool.  But I think I've described my 
motivation to use them well enough by this point.  So perhaps we can 
call it a design decision :).

-Steve