[Zope-dev] Copy, Cut and Cookies: a CopySupport.py question

[Shane Hathaway]

Jeff Sasmor wrote:
> To someone with perhaps more ZZen than
> myself ....
> 
> I am trying to understand CopySupport.py -
> 
> It seems that objects that are cut or copied are
> stored in a cookie on the client.

Not the objects, but the path to the objects are stored in a cookie.  To 
be more precise, Zope takes the list of object paths the user has chosen 
and compresses and encodes in in ASCII.

> I could see how this would be easier than trying 
> to associate some stored data item on the server
> with a particular client browser, but it also seems
> somewhat  inefficient (esp. as regards upload and 
> download times from the client) 
> unless the object is relatively small in size 
> and I also wonder if this scheme would break
> down completely for a big object, say 
> something a few MB in size. 

The cookie is between about 100 bytes and 4K (if you select a lot of 
objects).

Shane