Re: Yet another feature request for the web-server

[Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>]

MJ Ray schrieb:
> Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:
> > It's not only session management -- what about user preferences?
> 
> Yes, I know about this possibility, which is why I think cookies being
> impossible is not good, but I don't think many sites have user
> preferences without some form of session management.

yes, but how do you do session management?

adding hidden input boxes and adding url params is cumbersome 
and left to the poor developer.

php does it automatically (--enable-trans-sid), but normally you 
do it simply with cookies. only when a cookie is not successful 
(redirect to same location and check if it's there) you have to 
fallback to the poor methods described above.

A general a href and form function helps though. this can add the SID 
automatically. I do it like this.

> > What about playing with other headers like having a page that will
> > not stick to your cache, changing mime types etc etc etc?

it's absolutely needed for file uploads, pdf downloads, 
dynamic gif's, http auth, ssl auth, server-side caching of 
dynamic content, avoiding local or proxy caching, ...

> Yes, these would be very useful.
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Reini Urban
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