[Seaside] state of the aubergine

[Avi Bryant]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Kamil Kukura wrote:

> It is likely to expect that seaside will be explored by developers
> already experienced with writing ASP or PHP server pages. For me the
> first touch was quite okay except the understanding of sessions. In web
> development area, session is usually known as some kind of storage that
> persists for the time a user is browsing the site and expires on
> inactivity. So when I saw in IAApplication the parameter "sessionLimit"
> I was suddenly confused. It somehow couldn't fit into my view that
> session doesn't expire.

Can you explain further?  Sessions do expire, it's just that by default
they expire in according to an LRU policy.  For some situations a
time-based policy might be better, and it would be simple to implement a
subclass of IACache that did this.