[Zope] Preserving Settings during a user's session

[Scott Robertson]

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote:
> 
> Here's a better explanation, I hope...
> 
> 1. User connects to a server for the first time, requesting a URL:
> 
> 	http://www.megacorp.com/support/
> 
> 2. The Zope system realises that the REQUEST object doesn't have a
> SessionID attribute, and creates one (a SessionID) and sends a redirect
> to load:
> 
> 	http://www.megacorp.com/42/support/
> 
> where 42 is the SessionID.
> 
> 3. From then on the SessionID is stripped out of hte URL path, placed in
> the REQUEST object, and the rest of the path traversed, with the
> sessionID available to all objects thru the REQUEST object.
> 

42 maps to a temp object in the ODB right?
and Why strip the ID out of the URL?