[Zope] Preserving Settings during a user's session

[Christopher G. Petrilli]

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:06:43AM -0600, Jeff Bauer wrote:
> "Christopher G. Petrilli" wrote:
> > > How about from a single long-running process on a well
> > > known URL?  Sessions could then be scaled beyond a
> > > single server.
> > 
> > This was my point with the concept of a SessionServer, which would be
> > something seperate from Zope's main database.  It would reside on a
> > central server, and allow for multiple servers to resolve IDs into
> > "Session" objects.  These objects could even maintain state for some
> > period of time after their last access (i.e. someone could be shopping,
> > leave and come back in some manner)... you could also retreive them
> > based on some other information, perhaps... a userid, or something.
> 
> I was thinking more initially about just a ticket dispenser, than
> a session manager.  It's purpose would be to assure a unique id
> is passed to each requestor, possibly storing some information
> passed to it during the request phase.

I don't see wherewas this is really a different issue, honestly.
Whether it's persistent or not is a different question, but that seems
to be the only different in my view.

> > Honestly, though, I'm not sure HTTP is the best protocol for this, but
> > what do I know... I'd use XML-RPC over HTTP if I did that, otherwise I'd
> > use something else like CORBA.
> 
> The main problem is getting all this stuff to work through proxies,
> I'm sure you're aware.  I actually did manage to get Iona's Orbix
> to work through a firewall (thanks to hecurlean efforts on the 
> part of Justin Mason @ Iona and a security guru at Sprint), but it's
> just not worth the effort.  Nor does the current xml-rpc work through
> a proxy, at present (although it shouldn't be difficult to fix).  
> HTTP/SSL pretty much works everywhere.

So why wouldn't XML-RPC work across HTTP?  This was my option, not
across some other protcol.  Heck, ILU work across HTTP and I've heard of
people making it work thru firewalls.  XML-RPC though on thought does
seem like a good option, since it's standards based, and relatively
light-weight.  

Chris
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