[Zope] xmlrpc and sessions

[Lane Stevens]

It was my understanding that xmlrpc is stateless, and so I had supposed that
sessions being stateful would not be supported.  I had hoped that there was
a way to tie to sessions.  I assume that there would need to be a transport
mechanism of some sort to deal with sessions - but that is just a guess.

Related question:  Is there a best practice for dealing with state in the
use of web services through xmlrpc?

(Vague) Use case:
I have a Zope application that carries some information from previous
transactions in the session, and some methods that have depended upon that 
information being present to produce valid results.

I am creating new methods or changing existing methods and prefer writing
tests in xmlrpc rather than as page hits - or as method calls against an
offline instance of Zope.  In the case where these methods depend upon
something that expects session data, I have resorted to page hits.

Thanks,
Lane.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:32:50AM -0400, Jim Washington wrote:
> Lane Stevens wrote:
> 
> >Is there any way to establish/maintain session data between xmlrpc calls?
> >
> I am pretty sure it works just the same way as for anything HTTP.  Do 
> you have a use case where sessioning is not working?
> 
> I am doing something similar in xmlrpc, but my use case has cookies and 
> auth headers, so I have something more user-centered than session-centered.
> 
> -Jim Washington

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Lane Stevens
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