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

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 10, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Roger Ineichen wrote:

> 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?

No.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation