[Seaside] Scaling seaside: Added parameter for squeak instance

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/4/19, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
> Hi,
>
> I had a post before asking about how to encode a port
> number (of the squeak instance running a web service)
> into a cookie name. Phillip was right by pointing
> out that the cookie name is not the obvious choice while
> users can switch off cookies and seaside is able to switch
> to url session handling.
>
> The example Phillip mentioned used a port=[port number]
> parameter in the url. But I don't like to expose more
> information about the deployment to the outside. And I
> like to have the host also identified.

You do that anyway. Clients can display and modify cookies freely.

Philippe

> I added a configuration option to WASessionConfiguration
> to switch on/off use of the new parameter. I named it
> instance parameter as I think off squeak instances running
> on a host/port.
>
> I added an additional method to WAApplication to generate
> a parameter. I tried to mimick the seaside appearance as
> much as possible. I used to parameter key _i and encoded
> the host/port setting into a base64 string.
>
> I think this could be interesting for people who care
> about scaling seaside through haproxy or the like.
>
> A changeset is attached.
>
> regards,
>
> Norbert
>
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