[Seaside] Meaningful URLs was (Re: HV intro...) on the Squeak list

[Avi Bryant]

On 16 Apr 2002, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Cees de Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> said:
> >I've got some very ugly URLs between my bookmarks. I couldn't care less,
> >because the software shows the title of the page, not the URL itself.
> >
> I was a bit too quick here, completely overlooked the fact that these ugly
> URL's tend to have session identifiers in them and thus are invalid
> two weeks later. Oops. However, this can be dealt with gracefully in a lot of
> cases by the server - simply create a new session and redirect the user. Or
> encrypt everything necessary for the session in the ugly URL and forget about
> keeping it around server-side, so that it effectively never expires.

Or use ImageSegments to persist old sessions on disk and keep them around
for as long as you like (IASegmentCache).