[Web-SIG] Session interface
Titus Brown
titus at caltech.edu
Wed Aug 17 21:05:26 CEST 2005
-> Wow! I'm dumbfounded by this whole conversation! I thought session
-> backends were something innane enough that we could agree on them! I
-> have the same use cases as Geoffrey. No, cookies are not a good
-> replacement for sessions since you have to validate them everytime you
-> use them. You can't trust them unless you encrypt and sign them, and
-> I wasn't aware that that many people were doing that. Neither is
-> relying on a cookie to time out sufficient to control a session
-> timeout. Clients lie. Perhaps I have much to learn. I'm going to
-> sit back and just read :-/
(What he said ;)
--titus
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