preserving POST data

[Christoph Haas]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:35, Steve Young wrote:
> Lets say that I'm filling out a form and the information gets sent to 
> another server first for some processing(before the one that it 
> "should" go to). But from there, I want that intermediate server to be 
> able to preserve this POST data using python so it can still retrieve 
> the page that was originally requested (with some modifications from 
> the intermediate server). Is there a way to do this with python?

That's less a python-specific question. The general solution is to store 
the information on your server and remember who the user was. Many web 
programmers use a cookie based authentication/identification with a 
database backend. Which means:

- User comes to your website
- You send the user a cookie
- You create an entry in your database with that cookie
- User enters data
- You add the data to the database (referring to the cookie)
- User comes back later
- You can look up the data in your database according to the user's cookie

I use that scheme in a more complex way for cookie based authentication 
(http://workaround.org/pysessions).

Kindly
 Christoph
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