[Zope] xmlrpc and sessions

[Dieter Maurer]

Lane Stevens wrote at 2004-8-18 11:59 -0600:
>Is there any way to establish/maintain session data between xmlrpc calls?

Not so easy.

Sessions are identified by a session id, generated by the
"browser_id_manager".

The "browser_id_manager" currently is ready to look for
the session id in "cookies", "request arguments" or
the URL.

Almost surely, your XML-RPC transport ignores cookies (if not,
you have won).

I do not know a way to provide request arguments for an XML-RPC call
other than what should become the method arguments.

Remains the use of the URL to transport the session id.
You probably will need an special method that creates a session
and returns the session id. You then can call further sessions
with this session id in their URLs.

-- 
Dieter