[Seaside] Setting HTTP Headers

[Ken Treis]

On Sep 22, 2007, at 11:55 PM, "Ramon Leon" <ramon.leon at allresnet.com>  
wrote:
> Have you actually checked your headers via firebug?  Seaside headers  
> are
> already set to No-cache.

I hadn't seen that, thanks for pointing it out. In this case, though,  
I actually need Firefox to re-issue the GET when the back button is  
pushed. In my Rails app, I could set cache-control to "no-cache, no- 
store, must-revalidate" and that did the trick.

I'm still working on adjusting my old way of thinking, since Seaside  
does so many of these things differently. Maybe there's a better way  
of approaching this problem.

I'm working on a call center application, where the first component  
(after login) presents a menu. One of the menu choices, labeled "new  
call", starts a task that walks the operator through the process of  
taking information from the caller. Elsewhere, the app shows a report  
of how many calls are currently in progress.

So when the operator pushes "new call", I need to register their  
status with a global "off hook" registry, and when they cancel or  
finish the task, I need to unregister them. So far so good, but a  
problem arises when they press "new call" and then use the back button  
to bail out. Now I have a registered off-hook operator who really  
isn't off-hook.

If I could force a refresh when they come back to the menu, I could  
chide them when I notice that they're still registered as off-hook.

But maybe there's a better way to solve this. I have toyed with the  
idea of  keeping the off-hook boolean in an inst var of the session,  
and sweeping allInstances in order to count the off-hook ones. Or I  
could keep all logged-in sessions in a weak collection and scanning  
them that way. These would work, but I was hoping to find something a  
little less global.

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Ken Treis
Miriam Technologies, Inc.