[Seaside] Seaside Sessions in a Blog Server

[Karsten]

Hi Julian,

is there a demo for RESTful apps in Seaside available?

Kind Regards
Karsten

Am 17.10.09 18:31, schrieb Julian Fitzell:
> Hmm... personally, if I was doing a blog, I wouldn't use the
> RenderLoop at all (or possibly even sessions) until the user logged in
> to edit the blog. I might also use it when they posted a comment, but
> not sure. Much better to have it RESTful at that point, I think...
>
> If I was going to use sessions and render loop, I'd just keep the
> sessions around - it seems like a nightmare to figure out what
> callbacks were supposed to be what once the session is gone. You could
> add some kind of hidden field to the form so that you knew what kind
> of submission it was, and then I guess you could look through the
> request to find appropriate fields. Kind of tacky though...
>
> I guess it would be nice to have a mechanism to move sessions out to
> disk after a certain period; somebody could probably do that...
>
> You can also use JavaScript to keep the session alive as long as the
> user has the page open...
>
> Julian
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Karsten<karsten at heeg.de>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> there's this constant example of building a blog server with whatever web
>> framework. If you try to build a real webserver in Seaside you've got to
>> handle sessions somewhat properly. If you view a post and have a comment
>> input field then the session will be started when you open the post. After
>> reading through a very lengthly post the session is probably times out.
>> After writing a lengthly comment it's certainly timed out. If the user
>> submits the comment after the session is timed out, his comment is lost.
>>
>> The easiest way to handle this is to set the session timeout to maybe a day
>> or so. However, i'd rather use a short session time to not have tons of
>> sessions in the image. What would be the right way to handle that kind of
>> situations? I guess this could be done in initialRequest:, but how do you
>> figure out which callback-numbers match which input field?
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Karsten
>>
>>
>>
>>
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