[Seaside] 2.5 sushi store shopping cart & back button

[Nevin Pratt]

Avi Bryant wrote:

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> On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Nevin Pratt wrote:
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>> Avi,
>>
>> Have you thought about having the shopping cart one of the  
>> 'getFields' fields of the HttpRequest?  Then, regardless of the  
>> Seaside session expiry settings, the shopping cart would not expire  
>> until the HttpRequest expired.  I think the result would be that  the 
>> shopping cart would be a bit more persistant than even the  Seaside 
>> sessions are, for the simple reason that the Seaside  sessions are 
>> somewhat decoupled from the HttpRequests right now.
>>
>> I've even wondered about keeping shopping carts permanent for each  
>> connecting IP.  That would make them even more persistent and  
>> permanent than having the shopping cart tied to cookies, and  without 
>> the intrusion that cookies has.  The problem with that  scheme, 
>> though, is that many different computers can masquerade  behind a 
>> single firewalled IP.
>>
>> I'm wondering about a way to have a shopping cart persist and be  
>> permanent beyond Seaside sessions, and yet still be user-specific.   
>> Something that would allow a user to, say, come back the next day  
>> and still see their shopping cart items, but without using cookies.
>> I know that the 'getFields' idea of the HttpRequest that I mention  
>> above would not provide that level of persistence, but at least it  
>> would be more persistent than the Seaside sessions.
>>
>> Any ideas?
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>
> Why not set a cookie for a shopping cart id?
>
> Avi


I've been hesitant to do so.  I don't like cookies when I visit other 
websites, and I know a lot of other folks that detest them, too.

Nevin