[Seaside] [Newbie] Storing state in cookie instead of URL

[Philippe Marschall]

2008/9/7 Stef Telford <stef at ummon.com>:
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> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>> 2008/9/7 Stef Telford <stef at ummon.com>:
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>>> Hello Everyone, So, I am playing around with Seaside.. generally
>>> digging it and glad that I can do web development in my favourite
>>> language (Ruby is nice, but, well, Smalltalk is nicer ;). I have
>>> taken the first rudimentary steps, running Wakom, creating a
>>> simple page and storing state.
>>>
>>> However, when I was in the configure panel for my application, I
>>> switched the 'Use Session Cookie' to 'true', yet I still get the
>>> _k in my URL. I would have expected the value for _k to be stored
>>> in the session cookie. If this doesn't do this, then I have two
>>> questions;
>>>
>>> 1) how do I get Seaside to use _k in cookies ?
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>> Not at all.
> Ahhh.. judging from the reply, am I correct then in thinking that the
> _s (session key) is then stored in the cookie after login/authn/authz

No, it is stored when you view the first "page".

> and because Smalltalk/Seaside has to grab objects from the
> continuation, it has to know the _k value so that it can then find the
> user objects, page objects, etc ?
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> In other words; To be able to get the objects (including the cookie
> object), we need the _k outside so Smalltalk/Seaside can find it. If
> that's the case, then the _k outside makes sense, and something I may
> have to live with :)

No, the value of _k changes over the session lifetime. The value of _s does not.

Cheers
Philippe