[Tutor] Web development

[Ronan Lucio]

Benjamin,

Thank you very much by the good answer... :-)

Ronan

Em Qui 09 Out 2003 09:07, Benjamin Walling escreveu:
> There are two types of cookies: session and (semi) permanent.  Session
> cookies are good for the extent of time that a user is visiting your
> site.  In some browsers, this includes the entire length of time the
> browser is open, so if they visit your site, go somewhere else and come
> back, the cookie is still valid.  If you do not set an expiration date,
> what you get is a session cookie.  Permanent cookies will stay on the
> user's machine until the expiration date that you set.  This means that
> if they close the browser, reboot, etc, your cookie is still there.
>
> Generally, web applications are stateless, and you do not know who is
> really on your website, you would only know the last time each user
> requested a page.  You could then infer who you considered to be on your
> site by assuming that anyone that has requested a page in the last 5
> minutes is on your website.
>
> As far as logging, you can find the cookie information in your
> webserver's logs (IIS, Apache, etc), or you can log page requests
> yourself.
>
> You have little to no visibility that they have closed their browser or
> navigated to another site.  You can attempt some magic here with
> JavaScript, but I don't find it to be reliable.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronan Lucio [mailto:ronan at melim.com.br]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:53 AM
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] Web development
>
> Hello folks,
>
> Does someone develop web applications in Python?
>
> I'd like to know how can I manipulate users in a web application.
> Should I use cookies?
> I have read about cookies but I seems that cookies works with expiration
> time. So, if it's true, if a user closes its browser, isn't it be loged
> on automatcly, once the expiration time didn't end up?
>
> And if I set a little expiration time, will the user be loged for the
> next page?
>
> If some could point me to a documentation that clarify my mind, it also
> would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Ronan
>
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Ronan Lucio
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