[Zope] How SESSIONs work

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Milos Prudek wrote:
>> I would like an elementary understanding of how the internals of 
>> SESSIONs work. I assume they make use of cookies. If this is correct 
>> then, what information is
>> sent back and forth using cookies?
> 
> 
> Well, you don't need to read anything. You can actually SEE the data 
> exchange.
> 
> If you are on Linux, download and install "ethereal". Run it to capture 
> network traffic on http port. Study and enjoy.
> 
> If you are on Windows, there's "Sniffer" (expensive commercial software) 
> and I think
> there are some some shareware programs that can capture network traffic,
> but I don't know their names.

I know one ;-)

http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/

cheers,
oliver