[Zope] Zope cookies data point

[Kyler Laird]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:26:19PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:

> FWIW, Shane mentioned that sessions use cookies, but on the 2.6 branch
> (the trunk) it's possible to do "cookieless" sessioning via the
> automatic embedding of browser ids in the URL.  It makes for very ugly
> URLs, though, and you still need to either post to forms with
> Zope-generated URLs or embed the browser id in a hidden form element.

Yeah, I've gone through those contortions.  I'd like to
avoid doing it again.

My preference is to avoid trying to weld "sessions" into
HTTP.  When *I* cut something, it should be in *my*
"clipboard".  I'm authenticated as me.  That should be
enough information to find what I just cut.  It will
also work when I'm using multiple browsers (because I
still haven't figured out how to use tabs in textareas
in Mozilla/Galeon).

I like the idea of using the authentication ID as the
key for a session manager, but it seems like something
much simpler should suffice.

Thank you for thinking about this.

--kyler