[Zope-dev] CST not really... :-)

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:18:28 +1000


>>> Chris McDonough wrote
> Though it would be kind of neat to play around with persistent 
> connections in conjunction with session tracking, it's not too high on 
> the list right now for CST.. that's not to say, however, that an 
> alternate session id manager could not be written to do this.
> 
> I thought, however, that persistent HTTP connections were meant more to 
> avoid TCP connection costs than to identify sessions.

That's right. Using a persistent connection to identify a session is
way way bogus. In particular, note that _many_ proxies do not support
persistent connections properly, if at all.

Anthony