[Zope-dev] direction

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 2011-7-4 11:59, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 06:10:48PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> On 2011-7-3 17:48, Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>> FWIW, we have a high-performance, high-load application in production on
>>> Plone 4 with collective.beaker relying heavily on sessions, and I'm not
>>> aware of any problems with it. We use the memcached backend across two
>>> physical servers and a large number of Zope clients.
>>
>> In my experience it depends highly on the memcache client library you
>> use with beaker. With some the results are disastrous, with other it is
>> stable. Where possible I have switched to cookie-based sessions to
>> prevent stability problems.
>
> Aren't all sessions cookie-based?
>
> Did you mean you switched to secure cookies instead of server-side state?

I meant the cookie-backend, which indeed securely stores all data in a 
cookie instead of keeping any state serverside.

Wichert.


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