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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: NEW: Session Management
From:       Bavo De Ridder <bavo () ace ! ulyssis ! student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       1998-06-02 13:00:59
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Hello,

I had a look at your version of Session.pm. It does indeed do exactly
what I do int HttpSession.pm (only I do it the hard way). If your package
satisfies my needs, I will use Session.pm instead of continuing
development of HttpSession.pm

Bavo De Ridder

On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 05:40:45PM -0500, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> At 11:57 AM 5/31/98 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I recently needed session management like the one used at JavaSofts
> >Developer Connection. Looking at the Session.pm package revealed that IMHO
> >this package wasn't anywhere near usable.
> 
> Could you elaborate?  Suggestions are a Good Thing.
> 
> Also, are you referring to my Session.pm?  If so, please try the latest
> version at http://mothra.tamu.edu/perl
> 
> The primary advantage that I see of mine over yours is that it makes no
> database calls and stores all the data in memory.  Also, mine stores
> arbitrarily complex data structures, and AFAIK I can only store a single
> name/value pair with yours.  Let me know if I am wrong.
> 
> The decisions that were made for my Apache::Session were not made in a
> vaccuum.  I got good suggestions from folks on this list.  Most of them
> said that they would rather not be locked into a particular user tracking
> mechanism, so I left it up to them to do it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeffrey
> --
> Jeffrey W. Baker * jwb@tamu.edu
> "There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and 
> engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far 
> the more certain." -- Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

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