AW: [Zope-dev] Proposal: add form support tozope.session.http.CookieClientIdManager

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Jim

> Betreff: [Zope-dev] Proposal: add form support 
> tozope.session.http.CookieClientIdManager
> 
> 
> As it's name implies, the CookieClientIdManager manages HTTP 
> client ids using HTTP cookies. Recently, I've found it to be 
> useful to be able to get a client id via form data.  The 
> reason is that flash programs don't send browser cookies.  
> This bit me when trying to use the YUI uploader, 
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/uploader/, which uses a flash 
> program to select and upload files.  I'm using session 
> authentication and the only way I found to make it possible 
> to upload files to protected pages was to pass the client id 
> as form data.  I have a custom client id manager that gets 
> the id from form data as well as from a cookie.  I propose to 
> merge this with CookieClientIdManager.
> 
> Any objections?

Does this bring in new dependencies to zope.session?
if not moreDependencies:
    +1
else:
    -1

btw, I hope it will be still possible to remove the 
zope.app.appsetup somedays from the zope.session package.

Regards
Roger Ineichen


> Jim
> 
> --
> Jim Fulton
> Zope Corporation