[Zope] Re: Zope cookies data point

[Brian Ray Brinegar]

Zope makes things so easy.

:-)

-Brian

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Shane Hathaway wrote:

> Brian Ray Brinegar wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Kyler Laird wrote:
> >>Anyway...I'm willing to pay a small bounty for someone
> >>to get rid of cookie dependency in the management
> >>interface.
> >
> > Doesn't Zope have some nifty session managment features now? I think this
> > session management is server side, why not throw copy and paste data in
> > there?
>
> Session management depends on cookies. :-)  I guess the session manager
> could use the authentication token as the session key, which would work
> for some situations but not others.
>
> Here's another thought: when a session is active, reading cookies from
> the request and writing them in the response could be redirected through
> the session machinery, since a session is a perfect place to store lots
> of cookies.
>
> If you combined those two ideas, we'd be able to remove dependence on
> cookies from all Zope apps, including the ZMI, at once.  This could even
> start as a monkey patch product, just to let people try it out without
> upgrading Zope.
>
> Oh, there's a bounty?  In that case, it will be really hard.  We'll have
> draft a design document, elaborate, and write Java + assembly code and
> test it on all platforms.  Wow, it'll take weeks. ;-)
>
> Shane
>